[lbo-talk] Rationality of the Masses

[Jeffrey Fisher]

On 6/10/05, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> > So why is the US an outlier on religion, compared to other rich countries?
> 
> The first obvious answer that comes to mind is that America has a unique
> religious history.  It's the only country in the world where dissent
> Protestantism was the formative religion.  And that changes everything.

< snip >

i think this makes an awful lot of sense, as a partial explanation.
and it brings to mind the separatism of bob jones.

what i'm curious about, though, is how you think that
romantic-individual-dissent element relates to the theocratic
evangelicalism dominating the american religious landscape today?

j

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