The left hand of god novel7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, neither book drawsdirectly on the literature on religious awakenings and one of the booksmistakenly refers to the current situation as the Third Great Awakening. These two booksconsider some of the dimensions and the consequences of this FourthGreat Awakening for the Jewish community and, in the case of Lerner’sbook, more specifically for politics. Like earlier periods ofhistory, this period of religious awakening has had a significant impacton social practices and political life and controversies over issueslike abortion, ‘family values’ and gay marriage, a culture war betweentwo different conceptions of morality, one religious and the otherhumanistic and secular emphasizing rights rather than tradition and adivision of the U.S. is in the midst of a FourthGreat Awakening, a period that began during the 1960’s which hasfeatured a rise in fundamentalist religion. Numerous observers of American life and culture, includingreligious scholars, political scientists and economists like RobertFogel, have forwarded the idea that the U.S. ![]()
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