Religion and the state : Europe and North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / / Joshua B. Stein and Sargon G. Donabed

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821681103321
• Autore: Stein Josh <1944->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2012
• ISBN: 1-283-91291-0; 0-7391-7157-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DonabedSargon
• Disciplina: 322/.109032
• Soggetti: Church and state - Europe - History - 17th century; Church and state - Europe - History - 18th century; Church and state - United States - History - 17th century; Church and state - United States - 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction:Establishing and Disestablishing Religion in the Atlantic World; 1 Church and State inEarly Modern Europe; 2 The Reformed Theologian-The Forgotten Political Theorist? Change and Contest in Theology and Ecclesiology in Late-Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth-Century Reformed England; 3 "The Leviathan Is Not Safely to Be Angered": The Convocation Controversy, Country Ideology, and Anglican High Churchmanship, 1689-1702; 4 The French Revolution and the Civil Constitution of the Clergy: The Unintentional Turning Point; 5 The Spanish Legal Solution to the Presence of Religious Symbols in the Public Sphere: A Cautious Evolution from a Catholic Denominational Past to an Effective Secularism6 Church, State, and Capital Punishment in Seventeenth-Century Connecticut; 7 Roger Williams, English Law and Religious Tolerance: The Jewish Experience in the Southern New England Colonies, 1677-1798; 8 Oaths and Christian Belief in theNew Nation: 1776-1789; 9 Education, Religion, and the State in Postrevolutionary America; 10 Fighting over the Founders:Reflections on the Historiographyof the Founders' Faiths; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: The book discusses the relationship of religion to political entities (countries) in Europe and America in the 17th and 18th centuries. It aims to fill a gap in the literature by understanding the varieties of religious expression in Europe at the time and how those trends influenced the rise of religion in the American colonies and the early United States, and also to wonder if the founding fathers of the US desired a Christian nation.