To serve God and mammon
Subtitle: church-state relations in American politics
By: Ted G. Jelen
Series: Dilemmas in American politics
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Church and state -- United States
Description: "What is the appropriate role of religion in a democratic polity such as the United States? To Serve God and Mammon shows that church-state relations are ultimately contested in a variety of political arenas at the local, state, and federal levels and illustrates a number of general properties of the American political system. An important theme of this book is the apparent tension between the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution.

The book covers the history of church-state relations in the United States; the activities of individuals, interest groups, and various branches of government in the church-state area; and the transition of church-state debates from a focus on establishment clause issues to questions involving religious free exercise."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-149) and index