Examines the different roles played by church and state in considerations of religion throughout the history of the United States, beginning with concerns of the original colonists through the current debate about religion in schools.
The Politics of Religious Conflict: Church and State in America
See also Susan R. Schell, “State Refuses to Advance Intelligent Design Theory,” Canton Repository, October 13, 2002. Accessed on October 13, 2002, at http://www.cantonrep.com/cantonrep01/menus.php?ID= 66862&r=3&Category=11.
William Jennings Bryan, “Who Shall Control?,” in William Jennings Bryan and Mary Baird Bryan, ... David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot, Managers of Virtue: Public School Leadership in America, 1820–1980 (New York, 1982), 6–7, 106. 3.
Edited and with running commentary by Forrest Church, this important collection informs anyone curious about the original blueprint for our country and its government.
A fascinating account of the long and sometimes difficult association of religion and public education in the United States provides a much-needed historical perspective on such educational issues as sexuality, morality, and ...
This book traces the development of the concept of separation of church and state and the Supreme Court's application of it in the law.
So when Williams wanted to protect the “ garden ” of the church from the “ wilderness ” of the world , he was concerned about preserving the integrity of the faith from defilement by too close an association with the state .
Tyack, David. Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785–1954. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. ——— . Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment.
Divided by God speaks to the headlines, even as it tells the story of a long-running conflict that has made the American people who we are.