Christianity's American Fate

About this episode

The hosts discuss the book Christianity's American Fate and its implications for religion and society in America.

Hosts and Commonweal contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor introduce the podcast and discuss the book Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular by David Hollinger, the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

People in this episode

Hosts: Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Nick Tabor

Topics covered

• Christianity
• American society
• religion
• secularism
• conservatism

Keywords

• Christianity
• American Fate
• David Hollinger
• secularism
• conservatism
• religion
• society

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of California, Berkeley

Books & works: Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular

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