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The Third Disestablishment - Church, State, and American Culture, 1940-1975 (Hardcover)
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The Third Disestablishment - Church, State, and American Culture, 1940-1975 (Hardcover)
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In 1947, the Supreme Court embraced the concept of church-state
separation as shorthand for the meaning of the Establishment Clause
of the First Amendment. The concept became embedded in Court's
jurisprudence and remains so today. Yet separation of church and
state is not just a legal construct; it is embedded in the culture.
Church-state separation was a popular cultural ideal, chiefly for
Protestants and secularists, long before the Supreme Court adopted
it as a constitutional principle. While the Court's church-state
decisions have impacted public attitudes-particularly those
controversial holdings regarding prayer and Bible reading in public
schools-the idea of church-state separation has remained relatively
popular; recent studies indicate that approximately two-thirds of
Americans support the concept, even though they disagree over how
to apply it. In the follow up to his 2010 book The Second
Disestablishment, Steven K. Green sets out to examine the
development of modern separationism from a legal and cultural
perspective. The Third Disestablishment examines the dominant
religious-cultural conflicts of the 1930s-1950s between Protestants
and Catholics, but it also shows how other trends and controversies
during mid-century impacted both judicial and popular attitudes
toward church-state separation: the Jehovah's Witnesses' cases of
the late-30s and early-40s, Cold War anti-communism, the religious
revival and the rise of civil religion, the advent of ecumenism,
and the presidential campaign of 1960. The book then examines how
events of the 1960s-the school prayer decisions, the reforms of
Vatican II, and the enactment of comprehensive federal education
legislation providing assistance to religious schools-produced a
rupture in the Protestant consensus over church-state separation,
causing both evangelicals and religious progressives to rethink
their commitment to that principle. Green concludes by examining a
series of church-state cases in the late-60s and early-70s where
the justices applied notions of church-state separation at the same
time they were reevaluating that concept.
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