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Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America

Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America

Hardcover

Religion General General LawGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 3030028763
ISBN13: 9783030028763
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 3 2019
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book shows how, through a series of fierce battles over Sabbath laws, legislative chaplains, Bible-reading in public schools and other flashpoints, nineteenth-century secularists mounted a powerful case for a separation of religion and government. Among their diverse ranks were religious skeptics, liberal Protestants, members of minority faiths, labor reformers and defenders of slavery. Drawing on popular petitions to Congress, a neglected historical source, the book explores how this secularist mobilization gathered energy at the grassroots level.

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