The Third Disestablishment
Church, State, and American Culture, 1940-1975
In 1947, the Supreme Court embraced the concept of church-state separation as shorthand for the meaning of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The concept became embedded in Court's jurisprudence and remains so today. Yet separation of church and state is not just a legal construct; it is embedded in the culture. Church-state separation was a popular cultural ideal, chiefly for Protestants and secularists, long before the Supreme Court adopted it as a constitutional principle. While the Court's church-state decisions have impacted public attitudes--particularly those controversial holdings regarding prayer and Bible reading in pu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-090815-7
- EAN: 9780190908157
- Produktnummer: 29482257
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 29'849 KB
Über den Autor
Steven K. Green is Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History, and Director of the Center for Religion, Law, and Democracy at Willamette University. He is the author of Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding, The Bible, the School, and the Constitution: The Clash That Shaped Modern Church-State Doctrine, and The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America and co-author of Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court.
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