Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom Its Evolution and Consequences in American History

Zusammenfassung This book colourfully examines a famous Jeffersonian document which set the precedent for the US Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty. The Statute's history reflects two key revolutionary principles: absolute freedom of religious conscience; and the separation of church and state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors' preface; The statute of Virginia for religious freedom; 1. The Virginia statute two hundred years later Martin E. Marty; 2. Colonial religion and liberty of conscience Edwin S. Gaustad; 3. Religious Freedom and the desacralization of politics J. G. A. Pocock; 4. The political theory of Thomas Jefferson Thomas E. Buckley, S. J.; 5. James Madison, the statute for religious freedom, and the crisis of republican convictions Lance Banning; 6. 'The rage of malice of the old serpent devil': the dissenters and the making and remaking of the Virginia statute for religious freedom Rhys Isaac; 7. 'Quota of imps' John T. Noonan, Jr; 8. Jeffersonian religious liberty and American pluralism Cushing Strout; 9. Religion and civil virtue in America: Jefferson's statute reconsidered David Little; 10. The priority of democracy to philosophy Richard Rorty; 11. Madison's 'detached memoranda': then and now Leo Pfeffer; 12. The Supreme Court and the serpentine wall A. E. Dick Howard; Index.

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• Assisted by: Merrill D. Peterson (Editor), Robert C. Vaughan (Editor), Robin W. Lovin (Editor)
• Authors: Merrill D. Vaughan Peterson, Merrill D. Peterson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.10.2003
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780521892988
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89298-8
• Pages: 392
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Religion