The Bible in the Public Square

Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / Mark A. Chancey, Carol Meyeres, and Eric M. Meyers -- Part 1. The Bible and politics -- The Bible in the presidential elections of 2012, 2008, 2004, and the collapse of American secularism / Jacques Berlinerblau -- Biblical imagery, the End Times, and political action : the roots of Christian support for Zionism and Israel / Yaakov Ariel -- Part 2. The Bible, America's founding era, and American identity -- Does America have a biblical heritage? / John Fea -- "God's new Israel" : American identification with Israel ancient and modern / Shalom Goldman -- The image of the Protestant Bible in America / David Morgan -- Part 3. The Bible and popular culture -- Holy words in Hollywood : DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956) and American identity / Adele Reinhartz -- History, memory, and forgetting in Psalm 137 / David W. Stowe -- Comic book Bibles : translation and the politics of interpretation / Ruben Dupertuis -- Part 4. The Bible and public schools. Battling over the Bible in public schools : is common ground possible? / Charles C. Haynes -- Public school Bible courses in historical perspective : North Carolina as a case study / Mark A. Chancey. Imported from: zcat.oclc.org:210/OLUCWorldCat (Do not remove)