The serpentine wall
Subtitle: the winding boundary between church and state in the United States
By: James F. Harris
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781412849708
Subjects: Church and state; History; Church history
Description: The Serpentine Wall is chronologically structured. It begins with a history of ideas approach to the European backgrounds and colonial American experiments in theocracy and freedom of religion. It covers pre-modern American debates about religious freedom among the founding generation right up through the nineteenth century. The final section of the book focuses on the separation of church and state and how this has become a matter determined by the Supreme Court. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: European influences; title: Colonial America; title: The founding and the founders; title: The early republic; title: The nineteenth century; title: The 20th century to the present; title: The Supreme Court; title: The serpentine wall and universal history.