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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818196703321

Autore

Bowlby David Dean

Titolo

The garden and the wilderness : church and state in America to 1789 / / David Dean Bowlby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland. : , : Lexington Books, , 2011

ISBN

0-7391-8423-7

0-7391-7027-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Disciplina

261.7/2097309032

Soggetti

Church and state - United States - History - 17th century

Church and state - United States - History - 18th century

United States Church history 17th century

United States Church history 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references ([199]-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Old World background -- Seventeenth century New England -- The seventeenth century South -- The Middle Colonies in the seventeenth century -- Developments in the eighteenth century -- The Revolution & new state constitutions -- The conventions & First Congress.

Sommario/riassunto

The Garden and the Wilderness examines church and state in the colonial and early national periods up to the framing of the religion clauses of the First Amendment by the First Congress. Throughout, the book focuses on the relationship between religious establishments and free exercise.