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The Myth of American Religious Freedom, Updated Edition (Paperback, Updated Ed)
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The Myth of American Religious Freedom, Updated Edition (Paperback, Updated Ed)
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In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals
and conservatives often appeal to history. But in The Myth of
American Religious Freedom, historian David Sehat provides an
eye-opening history of religion in public life that overturns our
most cherished myths. Originally, he shows, the First Amendment
applied only to the federal government, which had limited
authority. On the state level, a Protestant moral establishment
ruled over Catholics, Jews, Mormons, agnostics, and others. Not
until 1940 did the Supreme Court extend the First Amendment to the
states. As the Court began to dismantle the connections between
religion and government, religious conservatives mobilized to
maintain their power and began the culture wars of the last fifty
years. To trace the rise and fall of this Protestant establishment,
Sehat focuses on a series of dissenters-abolitionist William Lloyd
Garrison, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, progressive pundit
Walter Lippmann, and many others. Shattering myths held by both the
left and the right, this book forces us to rethink some of our most
deeply held political beliefs.
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