The rise and decline of American religious freedom / (Record no. 45998)

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International Standard Book Number 9780674724754 (hbk.)
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International Standard Book Number 0674724755 (hbk.)
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Classification number 342.7308/52
Edition number 23
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Personal name Smith, Steven D.
Fuller form of name (Steven Douglas),
Dates associated with a name 1952-
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Title The rise and decline of American religious freedom /
Statement of responsibility, etc Steven D. Smith.
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Extent 223 pages ;
Dimensions 24 cm
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Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-213) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Prologue : the standard story and the revised version -- American religious freedom as Christian-pagan retrieval -- The accidental First Amendment -- The religion question and the American settlement -- Dissolution and denial -- The last chapter? -- Epilogue : whither (religious) freedom?
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Summary, etc Overview: Familiar accounts of religious freedom in the United States often tell a story of visionary founders who broke from the centuries-old patterns of Christendom to establish a political arrangement committed to secular and religiously neutral government. These novel commitments were supposedly embodied in the religion clauses of the First Amendment. But this story is largely a fairytale, Steven Smith says in this incisive examination of a much-mythologized subject. He makes the case that the American achievement was not a rejection of Christian commitments but a retrieval of classic Christian ideals of freedom of the church and freedom of conscience. Smith maintains that the distinctive American contribution to religious freedom was not in the First Amendment, which was intended merely to preserve the political status quo in matters of religion. What was important was the commitment to open contestation between secularist and providentialist understandings of the nation which evolved over the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, far from vindicating constitutional principles, as conventional wisdom suggests, the Supreme Court imposed secular neutrality, which effectively repudiated this commitment to open contestation. Rather than upholding what was distinctively American and constitutional, these decisions subverted it. The negative consequences are visible today in the incoherence of religion clause jurisprudence and the intense culture wars in American politics --
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Freedom of religion
Geographic subdivision United States.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Church and state
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Reformational Study Centre Reformational Study Centre General library 10/21/2020   342.730852 10/21/2020 10/21/2020 E-Book