Law And Religion In Colonial America

Author : Scott Douglas Gerber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Church and state
ISBN : 1009289047

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Law and Religion in Colonial America by Scott Douglas Gerber Pdf

Law - charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions - mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has been devoted to the free exercise of religion since well before the First Amendment was ratified. Indeed, the two colonies originally most opposed to religious liberty for anyone who did not share their views, Connecticut and Massachusetts, eventually became bastions of it. By focusing on law, Scott Douglas Gerber offers new insights about each of the five English American colonies founded for religious reasons - Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts - and challenges the conventional view that colonial America had a unified religious history.

Author : Mark Douglas McGarvie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107150935

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Law and Religion in American History by Mark Douglas McGarvie Pdf

This is a sweeping history of the relationship between law and religion in America from the colonial era to the present day.

Author : Scott Douglas Gerber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009289078

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Law and Religion in Colonial America by Scott Douglas Gerber Pdf

Law – charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions – mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has been devoted to the free exercise of religion since well before the First Amendment was ratified. Indeed, the two colonies originally most opposed to religious liberty for anyone who did not share their views, Connecticut and Massachusetts, eventually became bastions of it. By focusing on law, Scott Douglas Gerber offers new insights about each of the five English American colonies founded for religious reasons – Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts – and challenges the conventional view that colonial America had a unified religious history.

Author : Evarts Boutell Greene
Publisher : AMS Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Political Science
ISBN : MINN:319510024598753

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Religion and the State by Evarts Boutell Greene Pdf

Author : Jon Butler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0198044232

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New World Faiths by Jon Butler Pdf

Many people believe that the piety of the Pilgrims typified early American religion. However, by the 1730s Catholics, Jews, and Africans had joined Native Americans, Puritans, and numerous other Protestants in the colonies. Jon Butler launches his narrative with a description of the state of religious affairs in both the Old and New Worlds. He explores the failure of John Winthrop's goal to achieve Puritan perfection, the controversy over Anne Hutchinson's tenacious faith, the evangelizing stamina of ex-slave and Methodist preacher Absalom Jones, and the spiritual resilience of the Catawba Indians. The meeting of these diverse groups and their varied use of music, dance, and ritual produced an unprecedented evolution of religious practice, including the birth of revivals. And through their daily interactions, these Americans created a living foundation for the First Amendment. After Independence their active diversity of faiths led Americans to the groundbreaking idea that government should abandon the use of law to support any religious group and should instead guarantee free exercise of religion for everyone.

Author : Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421434599

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Law and People in Colonial America by Peter Charles Hoffer Pdf

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Author : James Patrick Daughton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195374018

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An Empire Divided by James Patrick Daughton Pdf

With case studies on Indochina, Polynesia, and Madagascar, this work tells the story of how troubled relations between Catholic missionaries and a host of republican critics shaped colonial policies. It also talks about Catholic perspectives, and domestic French politics in the tumultuous decades before WWI.

Author : Muhamad Ali
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474409216

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Islam and Colonialism by Muhamad Ali Pdf

This book offers a comparative and cross-cultural history of Islamic reform and European colonialism as both dependent and independent factors in shaping the multiple ways of becoming modern in Indonesia and Malaya during the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Frank Lambert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1400825539

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The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America by Frank Lambert Pdf

How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American history from the first British arrivals through Thomas Jefferson's controversial presidency. Lambert recognizes that two sets of spiritual fathers defined the place of religion in early America: what Lambert calls the Planting Fathers, who brought Old World ideas and dreams of building a "City upon a Hill," and the Founding Fathers, who determined the constitutional arrangement of religion in the new republic. While the former proselytized the "one true faith," the latter emphasized religious freedom over religious purity. Lambert locates this shift in the mid-eighteenth century. In the wake of evangelical revival, immigration by new dissenters, and population expansion, there emerged a marketplace of religion characterized by sectarian competition, pluralism, and widened choice. During the American Revolution, dissenters found sympathetic lawmakers who favored separating church and state, and the free marketplace of religion gained legal status as the Founders began the daunting task of uniting thirteen disparate colonies. To avoid discord in an increasingly pluralistic and contentious society, the Founders left the religious arena free of government intervention save for the guarantee of free exercise for all. Religious people and groups were also free to seek political influence, ensuring that religion's place in America would always be a contested one, but never a state-regulated one. An engaging and highly readable account of early American history, this book shows how religious freedom came to be recognized not merely as toleration of dissent but as a natural right to be enjoyed by all Americans.

Author : John F. Schwaller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742573420

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The Church in Colonial Latin America by John F. Schwaller Pdf

The Church in Colonial Latin America is a collection of essays that include classic articles and pieces based on more modern research. Containing essays that explore the Catholic Church's active social and political influence, this volume provides the background necessary for students to grasp the importance of the Catholic Church in Latin America. This text also presents a comprehensive, analytic, and descriptive history of the Church and its development during the colonial period. From the evangelization of the New World by Spanish missionaries to the active influence of the Catholic Church on Latin American culture, this book offers a complete picture of the Church in colonial Latin America. The Church in Colonial Latin America is ideal for courses in the colonial period in Latin American history, as well as courses in religion, church history, and missionary history.

Author : Kevin M. Kruse
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465040643

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One Nation Under God by Kevin M. Kruse Pdf

The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s. To fight the "slavery" of FDR's New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activists in a campaign for "freedom under God" that culminated in the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. The new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics. He inaugurated new traditions like the National Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and made "In God We Trust" the country's first official motto. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent. Americans across the religious and political spectrum agreed that their country was "one nation under God." Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how an unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to this day.

Author : David L. Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199740963

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The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes Pdf

It is not uncommon to hear Christians argue that America was founded as a Christian nation. But how true is this claim? In this compact book, David L. Holmes offers a clear, concise and illuminating look at the spiritual beliefs of our founding fathers. He begins with an informative account of the religious culture of the late colonial era, surveying the religious groups in each colony. In particular, he sheds light on the various forms of Deism that flourished in America, highlighting the profound influence this intellectual movement had on the founding generation. Holmes then examines the individual beliefs of a variety of men and women who loom large in our national history. He finds that some, like Martha Washington, Samuel Adams, John Jay, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson's daughters, held orthodox Christian views. But many of the most influential figures, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John and Abigail Adams, Jefferson, James and Dolley Madison, and James Monroe, were believers of a different stripe. Respectful of Christianity, they admired the ethics of Jesus, and believed that religion could play a beneficial role in society. But they tended to deny the divinity of Christ, and a few seem to have been agnostic about the very existence of God. Although the founding fathers were religious men, Holmes shows that it was a faith quite unlike the Christianity of today's evangelicals. Holmes concludes by examining the role of religion in the lives of the presidents since World War II and by reflecting on the evangelical resurgence that helped fuel the reelection of George W. Bush. An intriguing look at a neglected aspect of our history, the book will appeal to American history buffs as well as to anyone concerned about the role of religion in American culture.

Author : Michael D. Breidenbach
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674247239

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Our Dear-Bought Liberty by Michael D. Breidenbach Pdf

How early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process. In colonial America, Catholics were presumed dangerous until proven loyal. Yet Catholics went on to sign the Declaration of Independence and helped to finalize the First Amendment to the Constitution. What explains this remarkable transformation? Michael Breidenbach shows how Catholic leaders emphasized their churchÕs own traditionsÑrather than Enlightenment liberalismÑto secure the religious liberty that enabled their incorporation in American life. Catholics responded to charges of disloyalty by denying papal infallibility and the popeÕs authority to intervene in civil affairs. Rome staunchly rejected such dissent, but reform-minded Catholics justified their stance by looking to conciliarism, an intellectual tradition rooted in medieval Catholic thought yet compatible with a republican view of temporal independence and church-state separation. Drawing on new archival material, Breidenbach finds that early American Catholic leaders, including Maryland founder Cecil Calvert and members of the prominent Carroll family, relied on the conciliarist tradition to help institute religious toleration, including the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649. The critical role of Catholics in establishing American churchÐstate separation enjoins us to revise not only our sense of who the American founders were, but also our understanding of the sources of secularism. ChurchÐstate separation in America, generally understood as the product of a Protestant-driven Enlightenment, was in key respects derived from Catholic thinking. Our Dear-Bought Liberty therefore offers a dramatic departure from received wisdom, suggesting that religious liberty in America was not bestowed by liberal consensus but partly defined through the ingenuity of a persecuted minority.

Author : Daniel L. Dreisbach,Mark David Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108602136

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Great Christian Jurists in American History by Daniel L. Dreisbach,Mark David Hall Pdf

From the early days of European settlement in North America, Christianity has had a profound impact on American law and culture. This volume profiles nineteen of America's most influential Christian jurists from the early colonial era to the present day. Anyone interested in American legal history and jurisprudence, the role Christianity has played throughout the nation's history, and the relationship between faith and law will enjoy this worthy and unique study. The jurists covered in this collection were pious men and women, but that does not mean they agreed on how faith should inform law. From Roger Williams and John Cotton to Antonin Scalia and Mary Ann Glendon, America's great Christian jurists have brought their faith to bear on the practice of law in different ways and to different effects.

Author : John Cotton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Catechisms
ISBN : PRNC:32101073360032

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The New England Primer by John Cotton Pdf