The secular revolution : power, interests, and conflict in the secularization of American public life / edited by Christian Smith.

Other author Smith, Christian (Christian Stephen), 1960-
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Descriptionxii, 484 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Secularism--United States. --History.
Church and state--United States. --History.
Protestant churches--United States. --History.
United States--Church history.

Contents 1. Introduction : rethinking the secularization of American public life / Christian Smith -- 2. Secularizing American higher education : the case of early American sociology / Christian Smith -- 3. Educational elites and the movement to secularize public education : the case of the National Education Association / Kraig Beyerlein -- 4. The positivist attack on Baconian science and religious knowledge in the 1870s / Eva Marie Garroutte -- 5. Power, ridicule, and the destruction of religious moral reform politics in the 1920s / P.C. Kemeny -- 6. "My own salvation" : the Christian century and psychology's secularizing of American Protestantism / Keith G. Meador -- 7. From Christian civilization to individual civil liberties : framing religion in the legal field, 1880-1949 / David Sikkink -- 8. Reforming education, transforming religion, 1876-1931 / George M. Thomas, Lisa R. Peck, and Channin G. De Haan -- 9. Promoting a secular standard : secularization and modern journalism, 1870-1930 / Richard W. Flory -- 10. After the fall : attempts to establish an explicitly theological voice in debates over science and medicine after 1960 / John H. Evans.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002015442
ISBN0520230000 (alk. paper)
ISBN0520235614 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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