Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
If two groups are standing on opposite sides of a fence throwing rocks at each other, it can be very dangerous to try to walk down the fence line between them. There is a good chance of catching stones from both sides. Steven Waldman has done a masterful job of walking that gauntlet in the discussio...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 188-189 |
| Review of: | Founding Faith (Westminster : Random House Publishing Group, 2008) (McMahone, Marty)
Founding faith (New York, NY : Random House, 2008) (McMahone, Marty) |
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| Summary: | If two groups are standing on opposite sides of a fence throwing rocks at each other, it can be very dangerous to try to walk down the fence line between them. There is a good chance of catching stones from both sides. Steven Waldman has done a masterful job of walking that gauntlet in the discussion of the place of religion in American society. In Founding Faith, Waldman tells the story of the American founding from the planting of the colonies to the passing of the First Amendment. The primary focus of his story, though, is on the development of the Constitution's protections of religious freedom through the stories of five key founders—Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and Adams. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csp028 |