Believer-In-Chief: Faith & The Presidency

57 Minuten

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BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Each week we take a topic that people are t...

Gesellschaft , Geschichte , Gesellschaft & Kultur

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vor 9 Jahren

American presidential candidates are expected to proclaim their
religious faith and the 2016 election is no exception. In this
episode of BackStory, Peter, Ed, and Brian explore the complicated
relationship between American presidents and their spiritual
beliefs. We’ll look at how many early leaders, like Thomas
Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, didn’t belong to a particular
church, and how Democratic presidential candidate Al Smith’s Roman
Catholicism was a flashpoint in the 1928 election. We’ll also hear
how evangelical preacher Billy Graham became the spiritual advisor
to a dozen Presidents.

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