Church and State in the Modern Age

Church and State in the Modern Age

Author: J. F. Maclear

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 0195086813

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This is a collection of documents on church-state relations in modern history. All material is associated with the evolution of the post-Reformation churches - Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox - in their relationship to the simultaneously developing moder


Enlightening the Next Generation

Enlightening the Next Generation

Author: F. Michael Perko

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-22

Total Pages: 681

ISBN-13: 1351113410

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Originally published in 1988, this title looks at the importance of the Catholic school in American education from 1830 to 1980. The articles in this collection illuminate the patterns of development. The most prevalent theme is that of school controversy, involving either Catholic conflict with public education and the wider culture on the one hand, or internal dissension within the Catholic community regarding the desirability of separate schools on the other. Taken together, these essays serve as pieces of a mosaic, interesting in themselves yet corporately providing a comprehensive picture of the history of Catholic schooling in America. They remind us that these institutions grew up as a response to particular forces at work in the wider society as well as within the Catholic community itself.


Secular Conversions

Secular Conversions

Author: Damon Mayrl

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1316720705

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Why does secularization proceed differently in otherwise similar countries? Secular Conversions demonstrates that the institutional structure of the state is a key factor shaping the course of secularization. Drawing upon detailed historical analysis of religious education policy in the United States and Australia, Damon Mayrl details how administrative structures, legal procedures, and electoral systems have shaped political opportunities and even helped create constituencies for secular policies. In so doing, he also shows how a decentralized, readily accessible American state acts as an engine for religious conflict, encouraging religious differences to spill into law and politics at every turn. This book provides a vivid picture of how political conflicts interacted with the state over the long span of American and Australian history to shape religion's role in public life. Ultimately, it reveals that taken-for-granted political structures have powerfully shaped the fate of religion in modern societies.


Pluralism and Progressives

Pluralism and Progressives

Author: Rivka Shpak Lissak

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1989-11-09

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780226485027

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The settlement house movement, launched at the end of the nineteenth century by men and women of the upper middle class, began as an attempt to understand and improve the social conditions of the working class. It gradually came to focus on the "new immigrants"—mainly Italians, Slavs, Greeks, and Jews—who figured so prominently in this changing working class. Hull House, one of the first and best-known settlement houses in the United States, was founded in September 1889 on Chicago's West Side by Jane Addams and Ellen G. Starr. In a major new study of this famous institution and its place in the movement, Rivka Shpak Lissak reassesses the impact of Hull House on the nationwide debate over the place of immigrants in American society.


Immigrants in the Valley

Immigrants in the Valley

Author: Mark Wyman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780830410231

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An illustrated history of German, Irish and Anglo settlement in the upper Mississippi country (1830-1860) covering Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri.


Church-State Relations in the Early American Republic, 1787–1846

Church-State Relations in the Early American Republic, 1787–1846

Author: James S Kabala

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1317321014

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Americans of the Early Republic devoted close attention to the question of what should be the proper relationship between church and state. Kabala examines this debate across six decades and shows that an understanding of this period is not possible without appreciating the key role religion played in the formation of the nation.


Church and State in American History

Church and State in American History

Author: John Wilson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0429663684

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Church and State in American History illuminates the complex relationships among the political and religious authority structures of American society, and illustrates why church-state issues have remained controversial since our nation’s founding. It has been in classroom use for over 50 years. John Wilson and Donald Drakeman explore the notion of America as “One Nation Under God” by examining the ongoing debate over the relationship of church and state in the United States. Prayers and religious symbols in schools and other public spaces, school vouchers and tax support for faith-based social initiatives continue to be controversial, as are arguments among advocates of pro-choice and pro-life positions. The updated 4th edition includes selections from colonial charters, Supreme Court decisions, and federal legislation, along with contemporary commentary and incisive interpretations by modern scholars. Figures as divergent as John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, James Madison, John F. Kennedy, and Sandra Day O’Connor speak from these pages, as do Robert Bellah, Clarence Thomas, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg. The continuing public and scholarly interest in this field, as well as a significant evolution in the Supreme Court’s church-state jurisprudence, renders this timely re-edition as essential reading for students of law, American History, Religion, and Politics.