The secular revolution : power, interests, and conflict in the secularization of American public life / edited by Christian Smith.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.Description: xii, 484 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0520230000 (alk. paper)
  • 9780520230002 (alk. paper)
  • 0520235614 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780520235618 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR 517 .S36 2003
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Contents:
Introduction : rethinking the secularization of American public life / Christian Smith -- Secularizing American higher education : the case of early American sociology / Christian Smith -- Educational elites and the movement to secularize public education : the case of the National Education Association / Kraig Beyerlein -- The positivist attack on Baconian science and religious knowledge in the 1870s / Eva Marie Garroutte -- 5. Power, ridicule, and the destruction of religious moral reform politics in the 1920s / P.C. Kemeny -- My own salvation : the Christian century and psychology's secularizing of American Protestantism / Keith G. Meador -- From Christian civilization to individual civil liberties : framing religion in the legal field, 1880-1949 / David Sikkink -- 8. Reforming education, transforming religion, 1876-1931 / George M. Thomas, Lisa R. Peck, and Channin G. De Haan -- Promoting a secular standard : secularization and modern journalism, 1870-1930 / Richard W. Flory -- After the fall : attempts to establish an explicitly theological voice in debates over science and medicine after 1960 / John H. Evans.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : rethinking the secularization of American public life / Christian Smith -- Secularizing American higher education : the case of early American sociology / Christian Smith -- Educational elites and the movement to secularize public education : the case of the National Education Association / Kraig Beyerlein -- The positivist attack on Baconian science and religious knowledge in the 1870s / Eva Marie Garroutte -- 5. Power, ridicule, and the destruction of religious moral reform politics in the 1920s / P.C. Kemeny -- My own salvation : the Christian century and psychology's secularizing of American Protestantism / Keith G. Meador -- From Christian civilization to individual civil liberties : framing religion in the legal field, 1880-1949 / David Sikkink -- 8. Reforming education, transforming religion, 1876-1931 / George M. Thomas, Lisa R. Peck, and Channin G. De Haan -- Promoting a secular standard : secularization and modern journalism, 1870-1930 / Richard W. Flory -- After the fall : attempts to establish an explicitly theological voice in debates over science and medicine after 1960 / John H. Evans.

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