1st Edition
The Serpentine Wall The Winding Boundary Between Church and State in the United States
Edited By James F. Harris
Copyright 2013
224 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Serpentine Wall is chronologically structured, befitting a history of church-state separation in the United States. It begins with a history of ideas approach to the European backgrounds and colonial American experiments in theocracy and freedom of religion. It covers pre-modern American debates about religious freedom among the founding generation right up through the nineteenth century.... Read more
Preface
Part IPrologue to Democracy and Religious Freedom
Chapter 1European Influences
Chapter 2Colonial America
Part IIThe Republic, Religious Freedom, and Church and State
Chapter 3The Founding and the Founders
Chapter 4The Early Republic
Chapter 5The Nineteenth Century
Part IIIChurch and State in the Modern United States
Chapter 6The Twentieth Century to the Present
Chapter 7The Supreme Court
Chapter 8The Serpentine Wall and Universal History
Selected Bibliography
Index
Biography
James F. Harris
