(CNN) -- Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of "The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation," is a regular CNN Belief Blog contributor. As President Barack Obama puts the finishing touches on his second inaugural address, one in which aides say Obama will take a "hopeful" tone, here are Prothero's picks for the top five U.S. presidential inaugural addresses: 1. Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural (1801) If you think partisan politics are bad today, you should have seen the election of 1800. Desperately trying to hold onto power, Federalists accused Jefferson of all sorts of infidelities to God and country, blasting him as an infidel and intimating that he might be a secret Jew or Muslim. Soon each side was questioning whether America could survive rule by the opposing party.
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In the wake of election tie, Thomas Jefferson delivered most conciliatory address
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Frederick Douglass said Lincoln's second inaugural "sounded more like a sermon"
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Franklin Roosevelt's first inaugural delivered hope amid the Great Depression
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