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Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America

Martin E. Marty

Today people are curious about who the WASPs really are and were. With searing objectivity, shaded by a compassionate intelligence, Marty exposes the racism, intellectual complexity, and peculiar flexibility that helped to make up the unique institution American Protestantism was at its height. The author structures his investigation around problems of conflict: between races, social classes, between denominations and "schools."

ReligionReligion · medium confidenceReligion81 signalsLlm Classifier: Religion -> ReligionGoogle Books: Church history -> HistoryKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryReligious BiographyEvangelicalism & Christian NationalismPresidency & Executive Power

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for NonfictionMajor1972Co-winnerSecondary source
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