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Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life
Engelsk Paperback
Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life
Engelsk Paperback

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This interdisciplinary volume brings together essays on eleven of the founders of the American republic—Abigail Adams, Samuel Adams, Oliver Ellsworth, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Paine, Edmund Randolph, Benjamin Rush, Roger Sherman, and Mercy Otis Warren—many of whom are either little recognized today or little appreciated for their contributions.

The essays focus on the thinking of these men and women on the proper role of religion in public life, including but not limited to the question of the separation of church and state. Their views represent a wide range of opinions, from complete isolation of church and state to tax-supported clergy. These essays present a textured and nuanced view of the society that came to a consensus on how religion would fit in the public life of the new nation. They reveal that religion was more important in the lives and thinking of many of the founders than is often portrayed and that it took the interplay of disparate and contrasting views to frame the constitutional outline that eventually emerged.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9780268026028
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0268026025
Udg. Dato:
29 okt 2009
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
161mm
Højde:
231mm
Forlag:
University of Notre Dame Press
Oplagsdato:
29 okt 2009
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