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Undermined Establishment : Church-State Relations in America, 1880-1920.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, a stable relationship between American religious organizations and the state was taken for granted. Concord prevailed between the Christian (and largely Protestant) ""establishment"" on one side and governmental bodies on the other. Here a...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Handy, Robert T.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Collection:Studies in church and state.
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Résumé:In the middle of the nineteenth century, a stable relationship between American religious organizations and the state was taken for granted. Concord prevailed between the Christian (and largely Protestant) ""establishment"" on one side and governmental bodies on the other. Here a preeminent scholar of American religious history shows what happened when that settled relationship was tested and challenged. The decades from 1880 to 1920 were marked by an unprecedented influx of immigrants (many of whom were Catholics and Jews), increasing conflicts between public and private school systems, ex.
Description:Cover; Contents.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (217 pages)
ISBN:9781400862368
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