Steven Green

The Second Disestablishment (eBook, PDF)

Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199741595
• Artikelnr.: 38131581

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE The First Disestablishment
1.: Revolutionary Disestablishment
2.: Federal Disestablishment
PART TWO - The Antebellum Settlement
3.: Resistance and Revisionism
4.: New England Disestablishment
PART THREE - Legal Disestablishment
5.: Legal Christianity Conceived
6.: Legal Christianity Applied
7.: Legal Disestablishment
PART FOUR - The School Question
8.: The Rise of Nonsectarianism
9.: : The Secularization of Nonsectarianism
PART FIVE - The Gilded Age Settlement
10.: Reaction
11.: : Reconciliation
CONCLUSION