Copyright © 2016 by Kenneth L. Woodward

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Published in the United States by Convergent Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Selected material in Chapters 1 and 13 originally appeared in the online blog FirstThings.com, between 2011 and 2015.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Newsweek for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Has the Church Lost Its Soul?” by Kenneth L. Woodward, originally published October 4, 1971.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Woodward, Kenneth L., author.

Title: Getting religion : faith, culture, and politics from the age of Eisenhower to the era of Obama / Kenneth L. Woodward.

Description: First Edition. | New York : Convergent Books, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016020212 (print) | LCCN 2016026677 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101907399 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781101907405 (E-book)

Subjects: LCSH: United States—Church history—20th century. | United States—Church history—21st century.

Classification: LCC BR526 .W67 2016 (print) | LCC BR526 (ebook) | DDC 200.973/09045—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2016020212

ISBN 9781101907399

Ebook ISBN 9781101907405

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