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Religious Lessons - Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico (Paperback)
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Religious Lessons - Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico (Paperback)
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Religious Lessons tells the story of Zellers v. Huff, a court case
that challenged the employment of nearly 150 Catholic sisters in
public schools across New Mexico in 1948. Known nationally as the
"Dixon case," after one of the towns involved, it 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, Catholic and not, the scenario
of sisters 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, Kathleen Holscher brings together the
perspectives of legal advocacy groups, Catholic sisters, and
citizens who cared about their schools. She argues that the captive
school crusade was 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 these constitutional questions relevant
to them.
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