The secular revolution
Subtitle: power, interests, and conflict in the secularization of American public life
By: edited by Christian Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Christian 1960-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
Subjects: Secularism -- United States -- History.; Church and state -- United States -- History.; Protestant churches -- United States -- History.; United States -- Church history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : rethinking the secularization of American public life / Christian Smith; title: Secularizing American higher education : the case of early American sociology / Christian Smith; title: Educational elites and the movement to secularize public education : the case of the National Education Association / Kraig Beyerlein; title: The positivist attack on Baconian science and religious knowledge in the 1870s / Eva Marie Garroutte; title: 5. Power, ridicule, and the destruction of religious moral reform politics in the 1920s / P.C. Kemeny; title: My own salvation : the Christian century and psychology's secularizing of American Protestantism / Keith G. Meador; title: From Christian civilization to individual civil liberties : framing religion in the legal field, 1880-1949 / David Sikkink; title: 8. Reforming education, transforming religion, 1876-1931 / George M. Thomas, Lisa R. Peck, and Channin G. De Haan; title: Promoting a secular standard : secularization and modern journalism, 1870-1930 / Richard W. Flory; title: After the fall : attempts to establish an explicitly theological voice in debates over science and medicine after 1960 / John H. Evans.