The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 2 (eBook)

From "Higher Law" to "Sectarian Scruples"

James Hitchcock (Autor)

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2009
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2626-1 (ISBN)

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James Hitchcock is Professor of History at St. Louis University. He is the author of six books, including Catholicism and Modernity.

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School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion in this country is still fluid and changing. This, the second of two volumes by historian and legal scholar James Hitchcock, offers a complete analysis and interpretation of the Court's historical understanding of religion, explaining the revolutionary change that occurred in the 1940s. In Volume I: The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses (Princeton), Hitchcock provides the first comprehensive survey of the court cases involving the Religion Clauses, including a number that scholars have ignored. Here, Hitchcock examines how, in the early history of our country, a strict separation of church and state was sustained through the opinions of Jefferson and Madison, even though their views were those of the minority. Despite the Founding Fathers' ideas, the American polity evolved on the assumption that religion was necessary to a healthy society, and cooperation between religion and government was assumed. This view was seldom questioned until the 1940s, notes Hitchcock. Then, with the beginning of the New Deal and the appointment of justices who believed they had the freedom to apply the Constitution in new ways, the judicial climate changed. Hitchcock reveals the personal histories of these justices and describes how the nucleus of the Court after World War II was composed of men who were alienated from their own faiths and who looked at religious belief as irrational, divisive, and potentially dangerous, assumptions that became enshrined in the modern jurisprudence of the Religion Clauses. He goes on to offer a fascinating look at how the modern Court continues to grapple with the question of whether traditional religious liberty is to be upheld.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.1.2009
• Reihe/Serie: New Forum Books
• Reihe/Serie: New Forum Books
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: agnosticism • Amendment • anti-catholicism • Antonin Scalia • Atheism • attempt • Baptists • Blasphemy law • Blue law • Calvinism • Catechism • Catholic Church • Catholicism • Catholic school • Ceremonial deism • Chaplain • Christian Ethics • Christianity • Civil Religion • Clergy • concurrence • congregational church • Conscience • conscientious objector • Constitutionality • Criticism • de facto • Definition of religion • Deism • Deliberation • Dissenter • Doctrine • Establishment Clause • Exclusion • Fraud • freedom of religion • freedom of speech • Heresy • hypocrisy • Ideology • indoctrination • Institution • Irreligion • Jehovah's Witnesses • Jews • Judaism • Jurisprudence • Law and Religion • Legislation • Lemon v. Kurtzman • Liberalism • Majority opinion • Methodism • moment of silence • Morality • mormons • nonbeliever • of education • Old Testament • original intent • Orthodoxy • Pacifism • parochial school • Paul Blanshard • piety • plaintiff • Political System • Politics • Precedent • Prejudice • Presbyterianism • proclamation • Protestantism • Public morality • Public Policy • Religion • Religiosity • Religious Community • Religious education • religious experience • religious persecution • School Prayer • Sectarianism • Secularism • Secularization • seminary • separation of church and state • Separation of church and state in the United States • separatism • State law (United States) • State Religion • Subsidy • Supreme being • Tax • Tax exemption • Theology • The Other Hand • Toleration • Unitarianism • virtue
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2626-8 / 1400826268
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2626-1 / 9781400826261