Church State category: 1367 books
The Religious Roots of the First Amendment
Dissenting Protestants and the Separation of Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state rest on assumptions about "Enlightenment" and the republican ethos of citizenship. In The Religious Roots of the First Amendment, Nicholas P. Miller does not seek to dislodge that interpretation but to augment...
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Religion and Politics in America: An Encyclopedia of Church and State in American Life [2 volumes]
An Encyclopedia of Church and State in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
There has always been an intricate relationship between religion and politics. This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the interrelation of religion and politics from colonial days to the present.
• Enables readers to understand why religion and politics are necessarily interrelated
•...
by Jeffrey J. Polet, David K. Ryden
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This thoroughly annotated document collection gives students and researchers an authoritative source for understanding the evolving political and legal relationship between church and state from colonial times to the present day.
• Presents a balanced, fact-based examination of the myths...
Church and State in the Roberts Court
Christian Conservatism and Social Change in Ten Cases, 2005-2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Religious liberty is often called “the first freedom.” For many years, few decisions made by the Supreme Court have been more significant for ordinary Americans than those concerning issues of church and state. By what criteria do the justices make these holdings? This analysis reaches beyond...
Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land
A History of Church and State in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003
Should prayer be allowed in public schools? Should biology be taught according to Darwin or to the book of Genesis? Why is polygamy against the law? These are just a few of the questions that touch our lives directly and emerge out of the separation of church and state. In this volume, one of the...
Religion and the State
Europe and North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The historiography of church-state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of history illuminate the need for a thoroughly trans-Atlantic approach to the history of church-state...
Divided by God
America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
A brilliant and urgent appraisal of one of the most profound conflicts of our time
Even before George W. Bush gained reelection by wooing religiously devout "values voters," it was clear that church-state matters in the United States had reached a crisis. With Divided by God, Noah...
Protestantism and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia
The Communist and Post-Communist Eras
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Coming at a time of enormous transformations in the one-time Communist bloc, this volume provides a much-needed perspective on the significance of church-state relations in the renaissance of civil society in the region. The essays collected here accentuate the peculiarly political character of Protestantism...
by Jack Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
It was an upset Pope Francis who called his cardinals and bishops naughty. At Christmastime 2014 and again in 2015 Pope Francis scolded the cardinals and bishops of the Catholic Church for their vanity, hypocrisy, back-biting, gossiping, boasting, lusting for power and control, and acting like Lords...
Religion, Education and the State
An Unprincipled Doctrine in Search of Moorings
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In the context of education, Church and State issues are of growing importance and appear to be increasingly divisive. This volume critically examines the developing jurisprudence relating to religion in the schools beginning with Everson v. Board of Education, where the US Supreme Court discussed...
Founding Sins
How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to Put Christ into the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Covenanters, now mostly forgotten, were America's first Christian nationalists. For two centuries they decried the fact that, in their view, the United States was not a Christian nation because slavery was in the Constitution but Jesus was not. Having once ruled Scotland as a part of a Presbyterian...
Church, State, and Race
The Discourse of American Religious Liberty, 1750–1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
This book uses the discourse of religious liberty, often expressed as one favoring a separation between church and state, to explore racial differences during an era of American empire building (1750–1900). Discussions of religious liberty in America during this time often revolved around the fitness...
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul
Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America.
For four hundred years, Americans have wrestled with and fought over two concepts that define the nature of the nation: the proper relation between church and state and...
Godless
The Church of Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law.
Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals...