The second disestablishment: church and state in nineteenth-century America

Study of the American relationship between church and state tends to focus either on the founding period or the modern era. Steven Green argues that a crucial development occurred during the 19th century: a 'second disestablishment.'By the early 1800s, formal, political disestablishment had occurred nationally and among the states. Yet America remained a Christian nation. In the 19th century, legal and educational reforms and a growing appreciation of the nation's religious diversity led to a second disestablishment. Green shows that the second disestablishment is the missing link between the Establishment Clause and the modern Supreme Court's Church/State decisions. INDICE: PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE The First Disestablishment; 1.: Revolutionary Disestablishment; 2.: Federal Disestablishment; PART TWO - The Antebellum Settlement; 3.: Resistance and Revisionism; 4.:New England Disestablishment; PART THREE - Legal Disestablishment; 5.: Legal Christianity Conceived; 6.: Legal Christianity Applied; 7.: Legal Disestablishment; PART FOUR - The School Question; 8.: The Rise of Nonsectarianism; 9.: : The Secularization of Nonsectarianism; PART FIVE - The Gilded Age Settlement; 10.: Reaction; 11.: : Reconciliation; CONCLUSION

• ISBN: 978-0-19-539967-7
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 470
• Fecha Publicación: 29/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés