Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America
Author:   James H. Hutson ,  Daniel L. Driesbach ,  John Witte, Jr. ,  Thomas E. Buckley
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:  

9780847694334


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 February 2000
Format:   Hardback
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A collection of the country's most respected historians, philosophers, and theologians examines the role of religion in the founding of the United States. This collection of never before published essays, originally delivered at the Library of Congress, presents the most original and recent scholarship on a topic that still generates considerable controversy. Anyone interested in colonial history, religion and politics, and the relationship between church and state will benefit by reading this important new book.

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Author:   James H. Hutson ,  Daniel L. Driesbach ,  John Witte, Jr. ,  Thomas E. Buckley
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9780847694334


ISBN 10:   084769433
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 February 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Most Mild and Equitable Establishment of Religion : John Adams and the Massachusetts Experiment Chapter 2 The Use and Abuse of Jefferson's Statute: Separating Church and State in Ninteenth-Century Virginia Chapter 3 Thomas Jefferson, a Mammoth Cheese, and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State Chapter 4 The Revolution in the Churches: Women's Religious Activism in the Early American Republic Chapter 5 Evangelicals in the American Founding and Evangelical Political Mobilization Today Chapter 6 The Influence of Judaism and Christianity on the American Founding Chapter 7 Why Revolutionary America Wasn't a Christian Nation

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This is a grand collection of essays on church-state relations in the early Republic--a subject which is often oversimplified or even caricatured in today's battles over educational vouchers and public prayers. The contributors, among the finest scholars in the field, fully convey the rich variety of accommodations that existed between religion and the public order in the American formative period.--Richard Morgan,


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James H. Hutson is chief of the manuscript division at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

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