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 ...
... 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.
Something has gone wrong on the planet of Paradise.
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 ...
In "A Merciful End", Ian Dowbiggin tells, for the first time, the dramatic story of those reformers who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change the nation's attitudes towards mercy killing and assisted suicide.
Equipment was generally divided into “green” equipment (standard military-specific items) and “white” equipment (commercial-off-the-shelf or other nonstandard military items).51 Between January 1, 2011, and November 25, 2011, ...
The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history – 'A first-class storyteller' The Times Throughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy – which, by ...
Gary B. Nash, “The American Clergy and the French Revolution,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 22 (1965): 397; Morse, “The Present Situation of Other Nations of the World,” 14. 12. Noah Webster, “The Revolution in France” (1794), ...