Law and Religion in American History - Public Values and Private Conscience

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

Law and Religion in American History is an exploration of the issues of separation between church and state in America, from its founding to the modern day. Mark Douglas McGarvie explores the tension between periods of secular individualism and evangelical conservatives' call for greater public reliance upon religion.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Douglas McGarvie, Mark Douglas (College of William and Mar Mcgarvie, Mark Douglas (College of William and Mary McGarvie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2016
• EAN: 9781316605462
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60546-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: New Histories of American Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law