Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 2
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Anti-Catholicism
Antonin Scalia
Attempt
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Baptists
Blasphemy law
Blue law
Calvinism
Catechism
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Catholic Church
Catholic school
Catholicism
Chaplain
Christian ethics
Christianity
Civil religion
Clergy
Congregational church
Conscientious objector
De facto
Definition of religion
Deliberation
Dissenter
Doctrine
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Establishment Clause
Freedom of religion
Freedom of speech
Ideology
Indoctrination
Institution
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jews
Jurisprudence
Lemon v. Kurtzman
Liberalism
Morality
Mormons
Nonbeliever
Of Education
Original intent
Orthodoxy
Pacifism
Parochial school
Piety
Plaintiff
Politics
Precedent
Prejudice
Presbyterianism
Proclamation
Protestantism
Religion
Religiosity
Religious education
Religious experience
Religious persecution
School prayer
Secularism
Separation of church and state
Separation of church and state in the United States
Separatism
State law (United States)
State religion
Supreme Being
Tax
Tax exemption
The Other Hand
Theology
Toleration
Unitarianism
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- ISBN 9780691119236
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion in this country is still fluid and changing. This, the second of two volumes by historian and legal scholar James Hitchcock, offers a complete analysis and interpretation of the Court's historical understanding of religion, explaining the revolutionary change that occurred in the 1940s. In Volume I: The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses (Princeton), Hitchcock provides the first comprehensive survey of the court cases involving the Religion Clauses, including a number that scholars have ignored. Here, Hitchcock examines how, in the early history of our country, a strict separation of church and state was sustained through the opinions of Jefferson and Madison, even though their views were those of the minority.
Despite the Founding Fathers' ideas, the American polity evolved on the assumption that religion was necessary to a healthy society, and cooperation between religion and government was assumed. This view was seldom questioned until the 1940s, notes Hitchcock. Then, with the beginning of the New Deal and the appointment of justices who believed they had the freedom to apply the Constitution in new ways, the judicial climate changed. Hitchcock reveals the personal histories of these justices and describes how the nucleus of the Court after World War II was composed of men who were alienated from their own faiths and who looked at religious belief as irrational, divisive, and potentially dangerous, assumptions that became enshrined in the modern jurisprudence of the Religion Clauses. He goes on to offer a fascinating look at how the modern Court continues to grapple with the question of whether traditional religious liberty is to be upheld.
James Hitchcock is Professor of History at St. Louis University. He is the author of six books, including "Catholicism and Modernity".
