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Undermined Establishment: Church-State Relations in America, 1880-1920
By (Author) Robert T. Handy
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
322.10973
Paperback
218
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
369g
In the middle of the nineteenth century, a stable relationship between American religious organizations and the state was taken for granted. Concord prevailed between the Christian (and largely Protestant) "establishment" on one side and governmental bodies on the other. Here a preeminent scholar of American religious history shows what happened wh