Mark Douglas Mcgarvie

Law and Religion in American History

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781107150935
• ISBN-10: 1107150930
• Artikelnr.: 45153374

Autorenporträt

Mark Douglas McGarvie, JD, PhD is a Research Scholar at the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary. For the 2015-16 school year, he taught at the University of Zagreb Law School in Croatia as a Fulbright Scholar. His publications include One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State (2004), and contributions to The Cambridge History of Law in America (Cambridge, 2011), and No Establishment of Religion: America's Contribution to Religious Liberty (2012) and various law reviews and history journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Prologue: colonial America perpetuates state religion
2. Revolution in thought and social organization: the legal
hegemony of Jeffersonian liberalism, 1776-1828
3. A Christian counter-revolution and a new vision of American society, 1828-65
4. Regulating behavior and teaching morals: the uses of religion, 1865-1937
5. The rights revolution, 1937-2014
6. Epilogue: the significance of history and a reconsideration of original intent
Bibliographic essay
Index.