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Author : Paul Erasmus Lauer
Release : 1892
Genre : Church and state
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Book Synopsis Church and State in New England by : Paul Erasmus Lauer
Download or read book Church and State in New England written by Paul Erasmus Lauer. This book was released on 1892. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Reed Stifler
Release : 1914
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Church and State in Massachusetts, 1691-1740 by : Susan Reed Stifler
Download or read book Church and State in Massachusetts, 1691-1740 written by Susan Reed Stifler. This book was released on 1914. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip HAMBURGER
Release : 2009-06-30
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Separation of Church and State by : Philip HAMBURGER
Download or read book Separation of Church and State written by Philip HAMBURGER. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The detailed evidence assembled here shows that eighteenth-century Americans almost never invoked this principle. Although Thomas Jefferson and others retrospectively claimed that the First Amendment separated church and state, separation became part of American constitutional law only much later. Hamburger shows that separation became a constitutional freedom largely through fear and prejudice. Jefferson supported separation out of hostility to the Federalist clergy of New England. Nativist Protestants (ranging from nineteenth-century Know Nothings to twentieth-century members of the K.K.K.) adopted the principle of separation to restrict the role of Catholics in public life. Gradually, these Protestants were joined by theologically liberal, anti-Christian secularists, who hoped that separation would limit Christianity and all other distinct religions. Eventually, a wide range of men and women called for separation. Almost all of these Americans feared ecclesiastical authority, particularly that of the Catholic Church, and, in response to their fears, they increasingly perceived religious liberty to require a separation of church from state. American religious liberty was thus redefined and even transformed. In the process, the First Amendment was often used as an instrument of intolerance and discrimination.
Author : Paul Erasmus Lauer
Release : 2017-08-19
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Church and State in New England by : Paul Erasmus Lauer
Download or read book Church and State in New England written by Paul Erasmus Lauer. This book was released on 2017-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : N. J. Demerath III
Release : 2014-07-14
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis A Bridging of Faiths by : N. J. Demerath III
Download or read book A Bridging of Faiths written by N. J. Demerath III. This book was released on 2014-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homelessness, black neighborhood development, problems of abortion and sex education--how does religion affect the politics of an American city confronting these and other concerns? And what differences have "church and state" issues made in these struggles? In answering such questions, A Bridging of Faiths conveys a feeling of the urgent social theater of Springfield, Massachusetts, and provides both a contemporary and historical sense of how power shapes and is shaped by the civic culture. Recalling the immediacy and provocativeness of classic community studies like Middletown and Yankee City, the work draws on the voices of Springfielders themselves, while it exposes tendencies that prevail throughout contemporary America. This is a tale of two establishments: Protestant for three centuries, Springfield has been for the last fifty years a Catholic city. In looking at its emerging demographic, political, and economic patterns, the book shows how church and state interact at the local level, where lives are actually lived, as opposed to how the law and public opinion say they ought to interact at the more abstract federal level. While religion is more politically influential than some social scientists might have expected, it does not possess the kind of power feared by many constitutionalists. Politicians are seeking to redefine themselves in relation to religion and in other ways, and religion as a whole faces subtle crises of mobility, authority, and secularization. From these complexities, new patterns of cultural and political authority have emerged in Springfield, similar to those now affecting other American communities and the nation. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
