Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A collection of the country's most respected historians, philosophers, and theologians examines the role of religion in the founding of the United States. This collection of never before published essays, originally delivered at the Library of Congress, presents the most original and recent scholarship on a topic that still generates considerable controversy. Anyone interested in colonial history, religion and politics, and the relationship between church and state will benefit by reading this important new book.
Synopsis
A collection of the country's most respected historians, philosophers, and theologians examines the role of religion in the founding of the United States.
Table of Contents
"A most mild and equitable establishment of religion" : John Adams and the Massachusetts experiment / John Witte, Jr. -- The use and abuse of Jefferson's statute : separating church and state in nineteenth-century Virginia / Thomas E. Buckley -- Thomas Jefferson, a mammoth cheese, and the "wall of separation between church and state" / Daniel L. Dreisbach -- The revolution in the churches : women's religious activism in the early American Republic / Catherine A. Brekus -- Evangelicals in the American founding and evangelical political mobilization today / Mark A. Noll -- The influence of Judaism and Christianity on the American founding / Michael Novak -- Why Revolutionary America wasn't a "Christian nation" / Jon Butler.