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Our Religious Heritage
Grattan, C. Hartley | September 17, 1930 issue

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The article discusses the book "The Religious Background of American Culture," by Thomas Cuming Hall. The work is at once historical and critical, iconoclastic and constructive. Hall attempts to discover just what, in essence, the dominating religious tradition of American history has been. He has not tried to write a history of dogmatic theology in this country, nor an historical sketch of the various sects in their disparities and relations. He has rather gone back to the intellectual origins of the U.S. and shown just what was brought here, religiously speaking, by early immigrants. The one major point he makes that the so-called Puritan tradition in this country is misnamed and misunderstood.

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RELIGIOUS Background of American Culture, The (Book); HALL, Thomas Cuming; RELIGION; MANNERS & customs; THEOLOGY, Doctrinal; PURITANS; UNITED States
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