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Author : Finbarr Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1479823732
Author : Finbarr Curtis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479843800
Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either “religion” or “freedom.” Rather than resolve these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as religious freedom. Lacking any consistent content, religious freedom is a shifting and malleable rhetoric employed for a variety of purposes. While Americans often think of freedom as the right to be left alone, the free exercise of religion works to produce, challenge, distribute, and regulate different forms of social power. The book traces shifts in the notion of religious freedom in America from The Second Great Awakening, to the fiction of Louisa May Alcott and the films of D.W. Griffith, through William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Trial, and up to debates over the Tea Party to illuminate how Protestants have imagined individual and national forms of identity. A chapter on Al Smith considers how the first Catholic presidential nominee of a major party challenged Protestant views about the separation of church and state. Moving later in the twentieth century, the book analyzes Malcolm X’s more sweeping rejection of Christian freedom in favor of radical forms of revolutionary change. The final chapters examine how contemporary controversies over intelligent design and the claims of corporations to exercise religion are at the forefront of efforts to shift regulatory power away from the state and toward private institutions like families, churches, and corporations. The volume argues that religious freedom is produced within competing visions of governance in a self-governing nation.
Author : Finbarr Curtis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479856763
You, and you, and you: Charles Grandison Finney and democracy -- I'm not myself to-night. I owe money: Louisa May Alcott and salvation -- Sentiment rules the world: William Jennings Bryan and populism -- The helpless white minority: D.W. Griffith and violence -- The fundamental faith of every true American: Al Smith and loyalty -- Do you hate me? Malcolm X and the truth -- Science in a little box: intelligent design and secularity -- The most sacred of all property: corporations and persons -- You, and you, and you
Author : Steven D. Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674730137
Familiar accounts of religious freedom in the United States often tell a story of visionary founders who broke from 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. The American achievement was not a rejection of Christian commitments but a retrieval of classic Christian ideals of freedom of the church and of conscience. Smith maintains that the First Amendment was intended merely to preserve the political status quo in matters of religion. America's distinctive contribution was, rather, a 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. Instead of 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.
Author : David Sehat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 019026702X
Author : Tisa Wenger
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469634630
Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were continually reinvented through a vibrant national discourse--Wenger calls it "religious freedom talk--that cannot possibly be separated from the evolving politics of race and empire. More often than not, Wenger demonstrates, religious freedom talk worked to privilege the dominant white Christian population. At the same time, a diverse array of minority groups at home and colonized people abroad invoked and reinterpreted this ideal to defend themselves and their ways of life. In so doing they posed sharp challenges to the racial and religious exclusions of American life. People of almost every religious stripe have argued, debated, negotiated, and brought into being an ideal called American religious freedom, subtly transforming their own identities and traditions in the process. In a post-9/11 world, Wenger reflects, public attention to religious freedom and its implications is as consequential as it has ever been.
Author : John Thomas Noonan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0520209974
The Lustre of Our Country demonstrates how the idea of religious freedom is central to the American experience and to American influence on religion around the world.
Author : Philip Schaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Church and state
ISBN : UCAL:B3946747
Author : Henry B. Clark
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0878559256
Presenting perceptive essays on various aspects of religious liberty, the contributors to this volume provide an overview of the history and the issues surrounding religion in America.
Author : Christopher Douglas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501703522
The rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trained as we were to think that religions waned as societies became modern. In If God Meant to Interfere, Christopher Douglas shows that American writers struggled to understand and respond to this new social and political force. Religiously inflected literature since the 1970s must be understood in the context of this unforeseen resurgence of conservative Christianity, he argues, a resurgence that realigned the literary and cultural fields. Among the writers Douglas considers are Marilynne Robinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, N. Scott Momaday, Gloria Anzaldúa, Philip Roth, Carl Sagan, and Dan Brown. Their fictions engaged a wide range of topics: religious conspiracies, faith and wonder, slavery and imperialism, evolution and extraterrestrial contact, alternate histories and ancestral spiritualities. But this is only part of the story. Liberal-leaning literary writers responding to the resurgence were sometimes confused by the Christian Right’s strange entanglement with the contemporary paradigms of multiculturalism and postmodernism —leading to complex emergent phenomena that Douglas terms "Christian multiculturalism" and "Christian postmodernism." Ultimately, If God Meant to Interfere shows the value of listening to our literature for its sometimes subterranean attention to the religious and social upheavals going on around it.
Author : Eric C. Miller
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498561495
Though much has already been written on religious freedom in the United States, these treatments have come mostly from historians, legal scholars, and advocates, with relatively little attention from rhetorical critics. In The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States, fifteen scholars from this field address the variety of forms that free, public religiosity may assume, and which rhetorical techniques are operative in a public square populated by a diversity of religious-political actors. Together they consider the arguments, evidences, and strategies defining what religious freedom means and who is entitled to claim it in the contemporary United States.
Author : Heather J. Sharkey,Jeffrey Edward Green
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780812253375
This volume offers theoretical, historical, and legal perspectives on religious freedom, as an experience, value, and right. Drawing on examples from around the world, its essays show how the terrain of religious freedom has never been smooth and how in recent years the landscape of religious freedom has shifted.
Author : Tisa Joy Wenger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798890853479
Author : Sanford Hoadley Cobb
Publisher : New York : MacMillan
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Church and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010456163
Author : Jack N. Rakove
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190086565
Today, Americans believe that the early colonists came to the New World in search of religious liberty. What we often forget is that they wanted religious liberty for themselves, not for those who held other views that they rejected and detested. Yet, by the mid-18th century, the colonists agreed that everyone possessed a sovereign right of conscience. How did this change develop? In Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack Rakove tracks the unique course of religious freedom in America. He finds that, as denominations and sects multiplied, Americans became much more tolerant of the free expression of rival religious beliefs. During the Revolutionary era, he explains, most of the new states moved to disestablish churches and to give constitutional recognition to rights of conscience. These two developments explain why religious freedom originally represented the most radical right of all. No other right placed greater importance on the moral autonomy of individuals, or better illustrated how the authority of government could be limited by denying the state authority to act. Together, these developments made possible the great revival of religion in 19th-century America. As Rakove explains, America's intense religiosity eventually created a new set of problems for mapping the relationship between church and state. He goes on to examine some of our contemporary controversies over church and state not from the vantage point of legal doctrine, but of the deeper history that gave the U.S. its own approach to religious freedom. In this book, he tells the story of how American ideas of religious toleration and free exercise evolved over time, and why questions of church and state still vex us.