Are the United States still the «God’s Country»? Cover Image

Are the United States still the «God’s Country»?
Are the United States still the «God’s Country»?

Author(s): Franco Ferrarotti
Subject(s): Politics and society, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Academicus
Keywords: God’s country; loose canons; racial tensions; nation; givenness;

Summary/Abstract: Arriving to the «new world» across the Atlantic Ocean from England, the Founding Fathers, as an act of thankfullness to God’s guidance, called the United States the «God’s Country». On the other hand, serious scholars would call them the «unfinished country» and quite a few political scientists would talk about «our more perfect Union», touching on the variety and contradictions of the Two-centuries and a half old «nation of nations».

  • Issue Year: XII/2021
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 9-20
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English