![]() "Piercing and succinct yet astonishingly elegant, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment anatomizes the mind of 1950s America with the blend of precision and flair, moral conviction and compulsive readability that the era's public intellectuals prized in their literature. John Fea, Messiah College, author of Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction "George Marsden's learned and accessible analysis of the intellectual culture of the 1950s is must reading for anyone trying to make sense of our current debates over religion in American public life." Mouw, Professor of Faith and Public Life, Fuller Theological Seminary In exposing the underlying reasons for their failure, Marsden points the way to a challenging but exciting journey toward a truly inclusive pluralism." ![]() ![]() "This remarkable book gives us an insightful narrative of how we have gotten to our present failure to manage increasingly diverse cultural realities in North America. Marsden charts the various efforts over several decades in the last century to sustain a pluralism on the basis of a cultural consensus-both 'atheists for Niebuhr' and the New Religious Right had their own versions of this project. ![]() ![]() THE TWILIGHT OF THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT ![]()
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