The rise and decline of American religious freedom / (Record no. 134057)
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| Item number | .S645 2014 |
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| Personal name | Smith, Steven D. |
| Fuller form of name | (Steven Douglas), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1952- |
| Relator term | author. |
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| Title | The rise and decline of American religious freedom / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Steven D. Smith. |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Harvard University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2014. |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | �2014 |
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| Extent | 223 pages ; |
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| Formatted contents note | Prologue: the standard story and the revised version -- American religious freedom as Christian-pagan retrieval -- The accidental First Amendment -- The religion question and the American settlement -- Dissolution and denial -- The last chapter? -- Epilogue: whither (religious) freedom? |
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| Summary, etc. | Overview: Familiar accounts of religious freedom in the United States often tell a story of visionary founders who broke from the centuries-old patterns of Christendom to establish a political arrangement committed to secular and religiously neutral government. These novel commitments were supposedly embodied in the religion clauses of the First Amendment. But this story is largely a fairytale, Steven Smith says in this incisive examination of a much-mythologized subject. He makes the case that the American achievement was not a rejection of Christian commitments but a retrieval of classic Christian ideals of freedom of the church and freedom of conscience. Smith maintains that the distinctive American contribution to religious freedom was not in the First Amendment, which was intended merely to preserve the political status quo in matters of religion. What was important was the commitment to open contestation between secularist and providentialist understandings of the nation which evolved over the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, far from vindicating constitutional principles, as conventional wisdom suggests, the Supreme Court imposed secular neutrality, which effectively repudiated this commitment to open contestation. Rather than upholding what was distinctively American and constitutional, these decisions subverted it. The negative consequences are visible today in the incoherence of religion clause jurisprudence and the intense culture wars in American politics. |
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| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-213) and index. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Freedom of religion |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Church and state |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
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| Library of Congress Classification | Storms Research Center | Storms Research Center | Main Collection | 10/28/2025 | KF 4783 .S645 2014 | 98648100 | 10/28/2025 | 34.36 | 10/28/2025 | Book |