The second disestablishment
Subtitle: church and state in nineteenth-century America
By: Steven K. Green
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780195399677
Description: Study of the relationship between church and state in America tends to focus either on the founding period or the modern era. Steven Green argues that a crucial development occurred during the 19th century as legal and educational reforms and a growing appreciation of the nation's religious diversity led to a second disestablishment.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: The first disestablishment; title: Revolutionary disestablishment; title: Federal disestablishment; title: Part II: The antebellum settlement; title: Resistance and revisionism; title: New england disestablishment; title: Part III: Legal disestablishment; title: Legal Christianity conceived; title: Legal Christianity applied; title: Legal disestablishment; title: Part IV: The school question; title: The rise of nonsectarianism; title: The secularization of nonsectarianism; title: Part V: The gilded age settlement; title: Reaction; title: Reconciliation.