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Religious Lessons - Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico (Hardcover, New)
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Religious Lessons - Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico (Hardcover, New)
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Religious Lessons tells the story of Zellers v. Huff, a court case
that challenged the employment of nearly 150 Catholic religious in
public schools across New Mexico in 1948. The "Dixon case," as it
was known nationally, was the most famous in a series of midcentury
lawsuits, all targeting what opponents provocatively dubbed
"captive schools." Spearheaded by Protestants and Other Americans
United for Separation of Church and State, the publicity campaign
built around Zellers drew on centuries-old rhetoric of Catholic
captivity to remind Americans about the threat of Catholic power in
the post-War era, and the danger Catholic sisters dressed in full
habits posed to American education. Americans at midcentury were
reckoning with the U.S. Supreme Court's new mandate for a "wall of
separation" between church and state. At no time since the nation's
founding was the Establishment Clause studied so carefully by the
nation's judiciary and its people. While Zellers never reached the
Supreme Court, its details were familiar to hundreds of thousands
of citizens who read about them in magazines and heard them
discussed in church on Sunday mornings. For many Americans,
Catholics and non-Catholics, the scenario of nuns in veils teaching
children embodied the high stakes of the era's church-state
conflicts, and became an occasion to assess the implications of
separation in their lives. Through close study of the Dixon case,
Holscher brings together the perspectives of legal advocacy groups,
Catholic sisters, and citizens who cared about their schools. Her
account of the public arguments over sisters posits the captive
school crusade as a transitional episode in the Protestant-Catholic
conflicts that dominate American church-state history. Religious
Lessons also goes beyond legal discourse to consider the interests
of Americans - women religious included - who did not formally
articulate convictions about the separation principle. The book
emphasizes the everyday experiences, inside and outside classrooms,
that defined the church-state relationship for these people, and
that made constitutional questions over sisters relevant to them.
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