American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time

In American Awakening, Joshua Mitchell compares today's secular politics of identity-skin tone, gender, and sexuality-to the religious awakenings of America's past. The book asks where the clerisy of identity politics came from, how identity politics claimed a death grip on liberalism, and how can it be defeated.

We are living in the midst of an American Awakening, without God and without forgiveness. The first two Awakenings brought religious renewal; the third-the social gospel movement an...