LEADER 03634nam 2200613 450 001 9910822007803321 005 20230803201903.0 010 $a0-674-73096-8 010 $a0-674-73013-5 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674730137 035 $a(CKB)3710000000092394 035 $a(EBL)3301418 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001134645 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12429650 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134645 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11187141 035 $a(PQKB)11713115 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301418 035 $a(DE-B1597)455288 035 $a(OCoLC)961655098 035 $a(OCoLC)979778199 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674730137 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301418 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10844280 035 $a(OCoLC)871257582 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000092394 100 $a20140319h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe rise and decline of American religious freedom /$fSteven D. Smith 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-674-72475-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPrologue. The Standard Story and the Revised Version --$t1. American Religious Freedom as Christian- Pagan Retrieval --$t2. The Accidental First Amendment --$t3. The Religion Question and the American Settlement --$t4. Dissolution and Denial --$t5. The Last Chapter? --$tEpilogue. Whither (Religious) Freedom?, --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aFamiliar accounts of religious freedom in the United States often tell a story of visionary founders who broke from 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. The American achievement was not a rejection of Christian commitments but a retrieval of classic Christian ideals of freedom of the church and of conscience. Smith maintains that the First Amendment was intended merely to preserve the political status quo in matters of religion. America's distinctive contribution was, rather, a 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. Instead of 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. 606 $aFreedom of religion$zUnited States 606 $aChurch and state$zUnited States 615 0$aFreedom of religion 615 0$aChurch and state 676 $a342.7308/52 700 $aSmith$b Steven D$g(Steven Douglas),$f1952-$01670354 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822007803321 996 $aThe rise and decline of American religious freedom$94110162 997 $aUNINA