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About the Author
Steven K. Green is Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and affiliated Professor of History, and Director of the Center for Religion, Law, and Democracy at Willamette University. He is the author of Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding, The Bible, the School, and the Constitution: The Clash That Shaped Modern Church-State Doctrine, and The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America and co-author of Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court.
Reviews
The idea of church-state separation might be considered the quintessential American cultural norm, but this book reveals the manifold interpretations and applications of that supposed norm in everyday American life. * Ana Self Schuber, The University of Alabama, Religious Studies Review *
The completion of this latest volume places Green's achievements on par with other defining works of church-state history.... The sum of The Third Establishment's cogent, multifaceted argument is that separationism was neither a precisely defined concept nor directed exclusively at Catholics. It embodied a diffuse, secularizing current in American culture which, when paired with the pluralistic impulses of the Civil Rights era, collapsed under the weight of its contradictions. Nonetheless, it defined American jurisprudence for decades. And no one has done a better job of illuminating its twentieth-century history than Steven Green. * Church History *
Green's account of Church-State issues in the mid-twentieth century is comprehensive, coherent and compelling. Based on extensive research in primary sources and brimming with astute analysis, The third disestablishment greatly enhances our understanding of the relationship between America's government and its religious institutions and communities. * Gary Scott Smith, Grove City College, Pennsylvania, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *
It is impossible, in such short space, to do justice to what is easily one of the most important books on the postwar religion cases to appear in many years. * John W. Compton, Chapman University, Journal of Church and State *
Green argues persuasively that previous studies have either missed or mischaracterized crucial aspects of the story. His revisionist reading of the material is both subtle and profound. easily one of the most important books on the postwar religion cases to appear in many years. * Journal of Church and State *
Recommended. * S.B. Lichtman, CHOICE *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190908140
Author Steven K. Green
Format Hardback
Page Count 456
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 726g
Dimensions(mm) 163mm * 236mm * 41mm