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Separating Church and State - Steven K. Green

Separating Church and State

A History

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Buch | Hardcover
246 Seiten
2022
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6206-2 (ISBN)
CHF 62,85 inkl. MwSt
Steven K. Green, renowned for his scholarship on the separation of church and state, charts the career of the concept and helps us understand how it has fallen into disfavor with many Americans.


In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson distilled a leading idea in the early American republic and wrote of a wall of separation between church and state. That metaphor has come down from Jefferson to twenty-first-century Americans through a long history of jurisprudence, political contestation, and cultural influence. This book traces the development of the concept of separation of church and state and the Supreme Court's application of it in the law.



Green finds that conservative criticisms of a separation of church and state overlook the strong historical and jurisprudential pedigree of the idea. Yet, arguing with liberal advocates of the doctrine, he notes that the idea remains fundamentally vague and thus open to loose interpretation in the courts. As such, the history of a wall of separation is more a variable index of American attitudes toward the forces of religion and state.



Indeed, Green argues that the Supreme Court's use of the wall metaphor has never been essential to its rulings. The contemporary battle over the idea of a wall of separation has thus been a distraction from the real jurisprudential issues animating the contemporary courts.

Steven K. Green is the Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies at Willamette University. He is the author of five books and more than forty scholarly articles on the intersection of history, law, and religion.

Introduction

1. Historical Antecedents of Separationism

2. Disestablishment and Separationism

3. The Early National Period

4. The Protestant Establishment of the Nineteenth Century

5. Separation Becomes Constitutional Canon

6. Separation's Apex and Decline

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Religion and American Public Life
Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 907 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Recht / Steuern Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-5017-6206-0 / 1501762060
ISBN-13 978-1-5017-6206-2 / 9781501762062
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