1
/
of
1
Oxford University Press, USA
Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America
Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America
Regular price
€53,95 EUR
Regular price
Sale price
€53,95 EUR
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Quantity
Couldn't load pickup availability
Debates over the proper relationship between church and state in America tend to focus either on the founding period or the twentieth century. Left undiscussed is the long period between the ratification of the Constitution and the 1947 Supreme Court ruling in Everson v. Board of Education,
which mandated that the Establishment Clause applied to state and local governments. Steven Green illuminates this neglected period, arguing that during the 19th century there was a second disestablishment. By the early 1800s, formal political disestablishment was the rule at the national level, and almost universal among the states. Yet the United States remained a Christian
nation, and Protestant beliefs and values dominated American culture and institutions. Evangelical Protestantism rose to cultural dominance through moral reform societies and behavioral laws that were undergirded by a maxim that Christianity formed part of the law. Simultaneously, law became
secularized, religious pluralism increased, and the Protestant-oriented public education system was transformed. This latter impulse set the stage for the constitutional disestablishment of the twentieth century. The Second Disestablishment examines competing ideologies: of evangelical Protestants who sought to create a Christian nation, and of those who advocated broader notions of separation of church and state. Green shows that the second disestablishment is the missing link between the Establishment
Clause and the modern Supreme Court's church-state decisions.
Author: Steven Green
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/12/2010
Pages: 472
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780195399677
which mandated that the Establishment Clause applied to state and local governments. Steven Green illuminates this neglected period, arguing that during the 19th century there was a second disestablishment. By the early 1800s, formal political disestablishment was the rule at the national level, and almost universal among the states. Yet the United States remained a Christian
nation, and Protestant beliefs and values dominated American culture and institutions. Evangelical Protestantism rose to cultural dominance through moral reform societies and behavioral laws that were undergirded by a maxim that Christianity formed part of the law. Simultaneously, law became
secularized, religious pluralism increased, and the Protestant-oriented public education system was transformed. This latter impulse set the stage for the constitutional disestablishment of the twentieth century. The Second Disestablishment examines competing ideologies: of evangelical Protestants who sought to create a Christian nation, and of those who advocated broader notions of separation of church and state. Green shows that the second disestablishment is the missing link between the Establishment
Clause and the modern Supreme Court's church-state decisions.
Author: Steven Green
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/12/2010
Pages: 472
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780195399677
About the Author
Steven K. Green is a Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of History at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon., where he directs the interdisciplinary Center for Religion, Law and Democracy. Green is the co-author of Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court, a case-book on church and state, and the author of more than two dozen scholarly articles on religion, law and history. He received a law degree from the University of Texas and a masters and PhD in constitutional history from the University of North Carolina.
This title is not returnable
Share
