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The First Freedoms

The First Freedoms
Author: Thomas J. Curry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1987-12-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195364007

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Is government forbidden to assist all religions equally, as the Supreme Court has held? Or does the First Amendment merely ban exclusive aid to one religion, as critics of the Court assert? The First Freedoms studies the church-state context of colonial and revolutionary America to present a bold new reading of the historical meaning of the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Synthesizing and interpreting a wealth of evidence from the founding of Virginia to the passage of the Bill of Rights, including everything published in America before 1791, Thomas Curry traces America's developing ideas on religious liberty and offers the most extensive investigation ever of the historical origins and background of the First Amendment's religion clauses.


Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land

Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land
Author: Edwin S. Gaustad
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2003-06-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0190290420

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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 most distinguished scholars of American religious history traces the complicated relationship of church and state from the early colonial period, through the unique American experiment in religious liberty after the Revolution, to the ongoing debate over religious issues in our schools and communities. Edwin Gaustad relates entertaining and edifying accounts of headline-grabbing court trials involving polygamy, witchcraft, and church taxation. He quotes moving passages from the speeches and writings of American Presidents and Supreme Court justices to prove that, to paraphrase Michelangelo, "religious liberty is made up of a series of trifles, but religious liberty is no trifle."


The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Author: Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2003-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521892988

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This book colourfully examines a famous Jeffersonian document which set the precedent for the US Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty. Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute, shepherded it through a decade-long struggle to adoption, and included it in his epitaph (along with the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the University of Virginia). The Statute's history reflects two key revolutionary principles: absolute freedom of religious conscience; and the separation of church and state. Both principles remain lively topics of debate on the contemporary religious and political scene. Papers collected here were presented at a conference sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. Among the contributors are several of America's most prominent religious and political historians and experts on jurisprudence.


Under the Cope of Heaven : Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America

Under the Cope of Heaven : Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America
Author: Patricia U. Bonomi Professor of History New York University (Emerita)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2003-07-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199729115

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In this pathbreaking study, Patricia Bonomi argues that religion was as instrumental as either politics or the economy in shaping early American life and values. Looking at the middle and southern colonies as well as at Puritan New England, Bonomi finds an abundance of religious vitality through the colonial years among clergy and churchgoers of diverse religious background. The book also explores the tightening relationship between religion and politics and illuminates the vital role religion played in the American Revolution. A perennial backlist title first published in 1986, this updated edition includes a new preface on research in the field on African Americans, Indians, women, the Great Awakening, and Atlantic history and how these impact her interpretations.


Religion and the State

Religion and the State
Author: Evarts Boutell Greene
Publisher: AMS Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1941
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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