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

by Stein, Joshua B.; Donabed, Sargon George; Hitchcock, James; Kitzinger, Sara; Shusterman, Noah; Sirota, Brent S.; Gómez, Rebeca Vázquez; Pacholl, Keith; Goodheart, Lawrence B.; McCook, Matt; Snyder, Holly; Strauch, Tara Thompson; Hedstrom, Matt; Sirota, Br

• ISBN13: 9780739171561
• ISBN10: 0739171569
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-02
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Josh B. Stein is professor of history at Roger Williams University, where he has taught since 1969. His most recent book is Commentary on the Constitution from Plato to Rousseau. Sargon G. Donabed is assistant professor of history at Roger Williams University, where he teaches Middle Eastern and religious studies. He is the coeditor of The Assyrian Heritage: Threads of Continuity and Influence.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction: Establishing and Disestablishing Religion in the Atlantic World	p. xiii
Church and State in Early Modern Europe	p. 1
The Reformed Theologian-The Forgotten Political Theorist? Change and Contest in Theology and Ecclesiology in Late-Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth-Century Reformed England	p. 25
"The Leviathan Is Not Safely to Be Angered": The Convocation Controversy, Country Ideology, and Anglican High Churchmanship, 1689-1702	p. 41
The French Revolution and the Civil Constitution of the Clergy: The Unintentional Turning Point	p. 63
The 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	p. 73
Church, State, and Capital Punishment in Seventeenth-Century Connecticut	p. 85
Roger Williams, English Law and Religious Tolerance: The Jewish Experience in the Southern New England Colonies, 1677-1798	p. 107
Oaths and Christian Belief in the New Nation: 1776-1789	p. 127
Education, Religion, and the State in Postrevolutionary America	p. 143
Fighting over the Founders: Reflections on the Historiography of the Founders' Faiths	p. 159
About the Contributors	p. 175
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