Can America Survive as a Secular Democracy? by Thomas Ricento

Thomas Ricento explores the tension between the myth of America as a Christian nation and its historical reality as a secular democracy. Read this article and find accompanying references at: https://secularhumanism.org/2024/11/can-america-survive-as-a-secular-democracy/ About the Author: Thomas Ricento, PhD, is professor and research chair, emeritus, at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has a BA in political science (Gettysburg College) and PhD in applied linguistics (UCLA). He is the author of Refugees in Canada: On the Loss of Social and Cultural Capital (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) among many other books and articles dealing with language ideologies and the politics of identity. He is currently writing a book on the Americanization movement of the early decades of the twentieth century. He has been a Fulbright Senior Lecturer and a visiting professor at universities in Aruba, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. Subscribe to Free Inquiry: https://secularhumanism.org/subscribe/ Free Inquiry Audio Edition is a production of The Council for Secular Humanism and the Center for Inquiry.