Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America
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| Summary: | IX, 286 p. 10 illus., 5 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02877-0 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. "Stepping Stone to an Establishment": The 1785 Campaign Against the Religious Tax in Virginia
- 3. “Prostrating our rights on the altar of superstition and bigotry”:The Sunday Mail Controversy in the Early Republic
- 4. “Exposing priestcraft and all its cognate -isms”: Chaplains, Temperance and Sunday Travel
- 5. “God’s Vice-Regents”: Political Preachers and the Crisis over Slavery
- 6. How Christian Were the Founders? God and the Constitution After the Civil War
- 7. The Bible Wars: Religion, Morality and Schools in an International Age
- 8. “Sunday clubs for wealthy people”: Taxing the Churches
- 9. “A professedly national secular show”: The World’s Fair Sunday Opening Controversy
- 10. Conclusion.