Politics and Religious Consciousness in America - Hardcover

George Armstrong Kelly (1932-1987) was a visiting professor of humanities and political science at Johns Hopkins University from 1980 until 1987, taught for many years at Harvard and Brandeis, chaired the Seminar in Political and Social Thought at Columbia University, and was a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Among his many books are Idealism, Politics and History: Sources of Hegelian Thought and Lost Soldiers: The French Army and Empire in Crisis, 1947-1962. 

"Readers will be grateful to [Kelly] for clearing away much of the debris of American religious and political traditions and revealing at least some of the old foundations."

—James L. Guth, American Politcal Science Review 

"A penetrating criticism of Protestant and post-Protestant culture in America."

—A. Porterfield, Choice 

"Subtle, extraordinarily learned, and often original."

—John A. Coleman, America