RT Book
T1 The myth of American religious freedom
A1 Sehat, David
LA English
PP Oxford New York
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/687094909
AB In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American history, David Sehat writes, Protestant Christianity was intimately intertwined with the state. Yet the past was not the Christian utopia that conservatives imagine either. Instead, a Protestant moral establishment prevailed, using government power to punish free thinkers and religious dissidents. In The Myth of American Religious Freedom, Sehat provides an eye-opening history of religion in public l
OP 356
NO Description based upon print version of record
CN BR516
SN 0-19-538876-3
SN 978-0-19-538876-3
K1 Freedom Of Religion : United States : History
K1 Christian Ethics : United States : History
K1 United States : Church history