The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom / / Steven D. Smith.
Familiar accounts of religious freedom in the United States often tell a story of visionary founders who broke from centuries-old patterns of Christendom to establish a political arrangement committed to secular and religiously neutral government. These novel commitments were supposedly embodied in...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue. The Standard Story and the Revised Version
- 1. American Religious Freedom as Christian- Pagan Retrieval
- 2. The Accidental First Amendment
- 3. The Religion Question and the American Settlement
- 4. Dissolution and Denial
- 5. The Last Chapter?
- Epilogue. Whither (Religious) Freedom?,
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index