Please don't wish me a Merry Christmas a critical history of the separation of church and state
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- ISBN: 9780814728048
- ISBN: 0814728049
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1 online resource (410 pages)
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electronic resource - Publisher: New York : NYU Press, 1996.
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Formatted Contents Note: | Preface; 1. Introduction : different stories; A story about the ways of power; A dominant story about the separation of church and state -- 2. Origins of power : the emergence of Christianity and antisemitism; The New Testament; The Christian discourse of redefinition : an excursus on power; The Roman establishment of Christianity : the first crystallization of church and state -- 3. The Christian middle ages; The early middle ages; The later middle ages -- 4. The Christian renaissance and reformation in continental Europe; The renaissance; The Lutheran reformation; The Calvinist reformation -- 5. The English reformation, civil war, and revolution; The English reformation; The civil war, restoration, and revolution; English political theory; Church and state at the end of the seventeenth century -- 6. The North American colonies; the early years: Calvinist roots; Christian declension and revival -- 7. The American revolution and constitution; The revolution and its aftermath; The constitution -- 8. The fruits of the framing : church and state in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America; The nineteenth century; Church and state in the early twentieth century -- 9. The fruits of the framing : church and state in late-twentieth-century America; The Supreme Court intervenes; A brief assessment of the Supreme Court cases -- 10. A synchronic analysis of the separation of church and state in the late twentieth century : concluding remarks; Symbolic power; Structural power; The interaction of symbolic and structural power; Final thoughts: a political statement. |
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