# This Earthly Frame: The Making of American Secularism - Hardcover

by **David Sehat** (Author)

**An award-winning scholar's sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to Trump**

**"Insights that are both illuminating and alarming."--Linda Greenhouse, _New York Review of Book_s**

**"An essential book for understanding today's culture wars. Sehat's clear-eyed and elegant narrative will change how you think about our supposedly secular age."--Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill**

In _This Earthly Frame_, David Sehat narrates the making of American secularism through its most prominent proponents and most significant detractors. He shows how its foundations were laid in the U.S. Constitution and how it fully emerged only in the twentieth century. Religious and nonreligious Jews, liberal Protestants, apocalyptic sects like the Jehovah's Witnesses, and antireligious activists all used the courts and the constitutional language of the First Amendment to create the secular order. Then, over the past fifty years, many religious conservatives turned against that order, emphasizing their religious freedom.

Avoiding both polemic and lament, Sehat offers a powerful reinterpretation of American secularism and a clear framework for understanding the religiously infused conflict of the present.

### Author Biography

**David Sehat** is a professor of history at Georgia State University. He is the author of _The Jefferson Rule_ and _The Myth of American Religious Freedom_, which was awarded the 2012 Frederick Jackson Turner Award. He lives in Atlanta, GA.

**Number of Pages:** 344

**Dimensions:** 1.34 x 9.37 x 6.22 IN

**Publication Date:** March 08, 2022

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