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No establishment of religion : America's original contribution to religious liberty / edited by T. Jeremy Gunn, John Witte, Jr.

Contributor(s): Gunn, T. Jeremy (Thomas Jeremy) | Witte, John, Jr, 1959-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 415 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199860371 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0199860378 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780199860395 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0199860394 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): United States -- Religion | United States. Constitution. 1st Amendment | Freedom of religion -- United States | Church and state -- United StatesDDC classification: 322/.10973 LOC classification: BL2525 | .N6 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-398) and index.
Contents:
John Witte, Jr. -- The separation of church and state versus religion in the public square : the contested history of the Establishment Clause / T. Jeremy Gunn -- Establishment at the founding / Michael W. McConnell -- Disestablishing religion and protecting religious liberty in state laws and constitutions (1776-1833) / Mark D. McGarvie -- Roger Williams and the Puritan background of the Establishment Clause / David Little -- Toleration and diversity in New Netherland and the Duke's Colony : the roots of America's first disestablishment / Paul Finkelman -- James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and the meaning of "establishment of religion" in eighteenth-century Virginia / Ralph Ketcham -- The Continental Congress and emerging ideas of church-state separation / Derek H. Davis --
The First Federal Congress and the formation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment / Carl H. Esbeck -- Defining and testing the prohibition on religious establishments in the early Republic / Daniel L. Dreisbach -- The "second disestablishment" : the evolution of nineteenth-century understandings of separation of church and state / Steven K. Green -- Disestablishment from Blaine to Everson : federalism, school wars, and the emerging modern state / Thomas C. Berg -- Some reflections on fundamental questions about the original understanding of the Establishment Clause / Kent Greenawalt -- Getting beyond "the myth of Christian America" / Martin E. Marty.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-398) and index.

Introduction / John Witte, Jr. -- The separation of church and state versus religion in the public square : the contested history of the Establishment Clause / T. Jeremy Gunn -- Establishment at the founding / Michael W. McConnell -- Disestablishing religion and protecting religious liberty in state laws and constitutions (1776-1833) / Mark D. McGarvie -- Roger Williams and the Puritan background of the Establishment Clause / David Little -- Toleration and diversity in New Netherland and the Duke's Colony : the roots of America's first disestablishment / Paul Finkelman -- James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and the meaning of "establishment of religion" in eighteenth-century Virginia / Ralph Ketcham -- The Continental Congress and emerging ideas of church-state separation / Derek H. Davis --

The First Federal Congress and the formation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment / Carl H. Esbeck -- Defining and testing the prohibition on religious establishments in the early Republic / Daniel L. Dreisbach -- The "second disestablishment" : the evolution of nineteenth-century understandings of separation of church and state / Steven K. Green -- Disestablishment from Blaine to Everson : federalism, school wars, and the emerging modern state / Thomas C. Berg -- Some reflections on fundamental questions about the original understanding of the Establishment Clause / Kent Greenawalt -- Getting beyond "the myth of Christian America" / Martin E. Marty.

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