Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Verhoeven, Timothy (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: United States-History.; Law-History.; Religion-History.; World politics.; US History.; Legal History.; History of Religion.; Political History.

This book shows how, through a series of fierce battles over Sabbath laws, legislative chaplains, Bible-reading in public schools and other flashpoints, nineteenth-century secularists mounted a powerful case for a separation of religion and government. Among their diverse ranks were religious skepti...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. "Stepping Stone to an Establishment": The 1785 Campaign Against the Religious Tax in Virginia
• 3. "Prostrating our rights on the altar of superstition and bigotry":The Sunday Mail Controversy in the Early Republic
• 4. "Exposing priestcraft and all its cognate -isms": Chaplains, Temperance and Sunday Travel
• 5. "God's Vice-Regents": Political Preachers and the Crisis over Slavery
• 6. How Christian Were the Founders? God and the Constitution After the Civil War
• 7. The Bible Wars: Religion, Morality and Schools in an International Age
• 8. "Sunday clubs for wealthy people": Taxing the Churches
• 9. "A professedly national secular show": The World's Fair Sunday Opening Controversy
• 10. Conclusion.