Please don't wish me a merry Christmas : a critical history of the separation of church and state / Stephen M. Feldman.
1997
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Title
Please don't wish me a merry Christmas : a critical history of the separation of church and state / Stephen M. Feldman.
Published
New York : New York University Press, [1997]
Copyright
©1997
Call Number
BR516 .F44 1997
ISBN
0814726372 (alk. paper)
Description
xi, 395 pages ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)35235378
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-388) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1
Introduction: Different Stories
1
A Story about the Ways of Power
1
A Dominant Story about the Separation of Church and State
3
2
Origins of Power: The Emergence of Christianity and Antisemitism
10
The New Testament
10
The Christian Discourse of Redefinition: An Excursus on Power
15
The Roman Establishment of Christianity: The First Crystallization of Church and State
21
3
The Christian Middle Ages
28
The Early Middle Ages
28
The Later Middle Ages
37
4
The Christian Renaissance and Reformation in Continental Europe
50
The Renaissance
50
The Lutheran Reformation
54
The Calvinist Reformation
64
5
The English Reformation, Civil War, and Revolution
79
The English Reformation
80
The Civil War, Restoration, and Revolution
84
English Political Theory
98
Church and State at the End of the Seventeenth Century
116
6
The North American Colonies
119
The Early Years: Calvinist Roots
119
Christian Declension and Revival
133
7
The American Revolution and Constitution
145
The Revolution and Its Aftermath
145
The Constitution
158
8
The Fruits of the Framing: Church and State in Nineteenth - And Early-Twentieth-Century America
175
The Nineteenth Century
175
Church and State in the Early Twentieth Century
203
9
The Fruits of the Framing: Church and State in Late-Twentieth-Century America
218
The Supreme Court Intervenes
218
A Brief Assessment of the Supreme Court Cases
246
10
A Synchronic Analysis of the Separation of Church and State in the Late Twentieth Century: Concluding Remarks
255
Symbolic Power
256
Structural Power
265
The Interaction of Symbolic and Structural Power
270
Final Thoughts: A Political Statement
282
Notes
287
Selected Bibliography
376
Index
389