Religion and the State: Europe and North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

by Joshua B. Stein (Editor), Sargon George Donabed (Editor), James Hitchcock professor, Department of History, St. Louis University (Contribution by), Sara Kitzinger The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Contribution by), Noah Shusterman (Contribution by)

Overview

The historiography of church-state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of history illuminate the need for a thoroughly trans-Atlantic approach to the history of church-state relations in the modern West. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the formative period for modern church-states relations we see vividly the complex interrelationship of developments from England, France, and America. Ever since, historians and political figures have compared the European and American efforts to discern the proper role of religion in government and government in religion. This work is an effort to illuminate that role or at the very least to bring to light the innumerable ways in which such roles were formed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739171578
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	08/02/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	234
File size:	268 KB

About the Author

Joshua B. Stein has taught at Roger Williams University since 1969. He received his PhD from St. Louis University in history and A.M. in Religious Studies from Brown University. His most recent book is Commentary on the Constitution from Plato to Rousseau (Lexington Books, 2011). Currently, he is working on a comparative study of the literature of the First World War and the Iliad.

Sargon G. Donabed is Assistant Professor at Roger Williams University, where he teaches Middle Eastern history and religious studies. He serves on the advisory board of the journal Chronos, published by the University of Balamand in Lebanon. His work has been published in journals such as Folklore and National Identities. He is a recipient of The American Academic Research Institute Iraq (TAARII) grant for his work on Assyrian folklore of Iraq and is the co-editor of The Assyrian Heritage: Threads of Continuity and Influence (2012).

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Church and State in Early Modern Europe, by James Hitchcock
Chapter 2: The Reformed Theologian, the Forgotten Political Theorist? Change and Contest in Theology and Ecclesiology in Late Sixteenth and early Seventeenth-Century Reformed England, by Sara C. Kitzinger
Chapter 3: The Leviathan Is Not Safely to Be Angered”: The Convocation Controversy, Country Ideology, and Anglican High Churchmanship, 1689–1702, by Brent S. Sirota,
Chapter 4: The French Revolution and the Civil Constitution of the Clergy: The Unintentional Turning Point, by Noah Shusterman
Chapter 5: Spanish Legal Solution to the Presence of Religious Symbols in the Public Sphere: A Cautious Evolution from a Catholic Denominational Past to an Effective Secularism, by Rebeca Vázquez Gómez
Chapter 6: Church, State, and Capital Punishment in Seventeenth-Century Connecticut, by Lawrence B. Goodheart
Chapter 7: English Law and Religious Tolerance: The Jewish Experience in the Southern New England Colonies, 1677–1798, by Holly Snyder
Chapter 8: Oaths and Christian Belief in the New Nation: 1776–1789, by Tara Thompson Strauch
Chapter 9: Education, Religion, and the State in Post-Revolutionary America, by Keith Pacholl
Chapter 10: Fighting Over the Founders: Reflections on the Historiography of the Founders’ Faiths, by Matt McCook
Index

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Barry Hankins

"A significant range of essays by an impressive array of scholars. This book is attentive to the ironic interplay of religious and secular forces during what could be called the founding era of liberal democracy.

Editorial Reviews

"A significant range of essays by an impressive array of scholars. This book is attentive to the ironic interplay of religious and secular forces during what could be called the founding era of liberal democracy."

Barry Hankins