| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN EARLY AMERICA; John Winthrop, "A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630); Maryland Act Concerning Religion (1649); William Penn, Frame of Government of Pennsylvania and Laws Agreed Upon in England (1682); James Madison, "Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments" (1785); Thomas Jefferson, Act for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia (1786); 2. SLAVERY AND THE CIVIL WAR |
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Frederick Douglass, "Love of God, Love of Man, Love of Country" (1847)George Armstrong, The Christian Doctrine of Slavery (1857); Julia Ward Howe, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1862); Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865); 3. MODERNIZING AMERICA; Reynolds v. United States (1878); Pittsburgh Platform of Reform Judaism (1885); Frances Willard, Woman in the Pulpit (1888); Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible (1895); W.E.B. Du Bois, "Of the Faith of the Fathers" (1903); Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907) |
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William Jennings Bryan, "Mr. Bryan's Last Speech" (1925)4. FAITH, FREEDOM, AND THE MEANING OF CITIZENSHIP; Reinhold Niebuhr, "Why the Christian Church Is Not Pacifist" (1940); Dorothy Day, "Wars Are Caused by Man's Loss of His Faith in Man" (1940); Jehovah's Witness Flag Salute Cases: Gobitis (1940) and Barnette (1943); George Docherty, "A New Birth of Freedom" (1954); 5. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND SPIRITUAL DIVERSITY; John F. Kennedy, "Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association" (1960); Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) |
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Jerry Falwell, "Ministers and Marches" (1965)Abraham Heschel, "The Moral Outrage of Vietnam" (1967); Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father (1973); 6. THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT AND ITS CRITICS; Engel v. Vitale (1962); Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman (1977); Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto (1981); John Shelby Spong, "Blessing Gay and Lesbian Commitments" (1988); Employment Division v. Smith (1990); 7. GLOBAL RELIGION, GLOBAL POLITICS; George W. Bush, "Freedom at War with Fear" (2001); Ingrid Mattson, "American Muslims Have a 'Special Obligation'" (2001) |
| Summary |
Essential primary sources reveal the central tensions between American politics and religion throughout the nation's history. Despite the centrality of separation of church and state in American government, religion has played an important role in the nation's politics from colonial times through the present day. This essential anthology provides a fascinating history of religion in American politics and public life through a wide range of primary documents. It explores contentious debates over freedom, tolerance, and justice, in matters ranging from slavery to the nineteenth-century controversy over Mormon polygamy to the recent discussions concerning same-sex marriage and terrorism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 2, 2017) |
| Subject |
Religion and politics -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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Religion and politics
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Butler, Jon, 1940- author.
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| ISBN |
9780300227802 |
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0300227809 |
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