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Evangelicalism --- United States --- History --- Church history --- Revivalism --- the First Amendment --- Postmillenialism --- Premillenialism --- subculture --- the religious right --- religion and politics --- America

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Freedom of religion --- United States --- United States. Constitution. 1st Amendment --- tolerance --- protestantism --- the second American revolution --- the Constitution --- the First Amendment --- freedom of religion

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Familiar 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.

Freedom of religion --- Church and state --- Liberté religieuse --- Eglise et Etat --- Church and state -- United States. --- Freedom of religion -- United States. --- Constitutional Law - U.S. --- United States --- American religious freedom --- Christian-Paganism --- the First Amendment --- religion

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The respect for religious difference has formed the bedrock of our nation and made equality possible. Yet today we are told that ?moral values"?code for a government shaped by religious concerns?must be the keystone of our social compact.A rich and compelling chronicle of an essential idea, Liberty of Conscience tells the story of America's great tradition of religious freedom. Philosopher Martha Nussbaum's ambitious book is both a work of history and a pointed rejoinder to conservative efforts to break down barriers between church and state.

General ethics --- Religious studies --- United States --- Freedom of religion --- 342.731 --- 172.3 --- Vrijheid van godsdienst. Gewetensvrijheid --- Religie en staat. Gewetensvrijheid. Intolerantie. Tolerantie --- 172.3 Religie en staat. Gewetensvrijheid. Intolerantie. Tolerantie --- 342.731 Vrijheid van godsdienst. Gewetensvrijheid --- Liberty. --- Freedom of religion - United States. --- United States of America --- liberty of conscience --- religion --- America --- religious equality --- religious history --- religious philosophy --- secularization --- religion and law --- religion and tradition --- the First Amendment