The Third Disestablishment examines the formative period in the development of church-state law and the rise and decline of church-state separation as a legal construct and a cultural value.
This cultural backdrop included a period of heightened tensions between institutional Protestantism and Catholicism, a conflict that did not dissipate until after the election of John F. Kennedy and the reforms of Vatican II. The text then ...
In this thought-provoking book, the author suggests that while the churches have heretofore reflected local social relationships and a traditional family morality, recent social revolutions have accelerated major changes in this church ...
This definitive volume, comprising twenty-one original essays by eminent historians and political scientists, is a comprehensive state-by-state account of disestablishment in the original thirteen states, as well as a look at similar events ...
In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment.
... 6 (Summer 1996): 161–194; Barris Mills, “Hawthorne and Puritanism,” New England Quarterly 21 (March 1948): 78–102; Meacham, American Gospel, 39. 4. Anson Phelps Stokes and Leo Pfeffer, Church and State in the United States, rev. ed.
In an America that is only becoming more diverse with respect to religion, this is not only the fairest approach, but the one most in tune with what the First Amendment actually prescribes.
In this sweeping work of religious and psychological history, Ann Taves explores the myriad ways in which believers and detractors interpreted these complex experiences in Anglo-American culture between the mid-eighteenth and early ...
Tyack, David. Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785–1954. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. ——— . Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Noyes W. Miner, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Springfield, claimed that Mary Lincoln told him this. See Miner, ''Personal Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln,'' manuscript dated 1882, Illinois State Historical Library, in RW, 297.
Disestablishment a Second Time: Genuine Pluralism for American Schools