Religion and the State

Edited by Joshua B. Stein and Sargon George Donabed - Introduction by Matt Hedstrom and Brent S. Sirota - Contributions by James Hitchcock; Sara Kitzinger; Noah Shusterman; Brent S. Sirota; Rebeca Vázquez Gómez; Keith Pacholl; Lawrence B. Goodheart; Matt

The book discusses the relationship of religion to political entities (countries) in Europe and America in the 17th and 18th centuries. It aims to fill a gap in the literature by understanding the varieties of religious expression in Europe at the time and how those trends influenced the rise of religion in the American colonies and the early United States, and also to wonder if the founding fathers of the US desired a Christian nation.

ForewordIntroductionChapter 1: Church and State in Early Modern Europe, by James HitchcockChapter 2: The Reformed Theologian, the Forgotten Political Theorist? Change and Contest in Theology and Ecclesiology in Late Sixteenth and early Seventeenth-Century Reformed England, by Sara C. KitzingerChapter 3: The Leviathan Is Not Safely to Be Angered": The Convocation Controversy, Country Ideology, and Anglican High Churchmanship, 1689-1702, by Brent S. SirotaChapter 4: The French Revolution and the Civil Constitution of the Clergy: The Unintentional Turning Point, by Noah ShustermanChapter 5: 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, by Rebeca Vázquez GómezChapter 6: Church, State, and Capital Punishment in Seventeenth-Century Connecticut, by Lawrence B. GoodheartChapter 7: English Law and Religious Tolerance: The Jewish Experience in the Southern New England Colonies, 1677-1798, by Holly SnyderChapter 8: Oaths and Christian Belief in the New Nation: 1776-1789, by Tara Thompson StrauchChapter 9: Education, Religion, and the State in Post-Revolutionary America, by Keith PachollChapter 10: Fighting Over the Founders: Reflections on the Historiography of the Founders' Faiths, by Matt McCookIndex