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Religion and Political Culture in Jefferson's Virginia
Garrett Ward Sheldon (Anthology Editor) , Daniel L. Dreisbach (Anthology Editor) , Mark A. Beliles (Contributor) , Thomas C. Thompson (Contributor) , Charles B. Sanford (Contributor) , Garrett Ward Sheldon (Contributor) , Douglas L. Wilson (Contributor) , Mary-Elaine Swanson (Contributor) , Daniel L. Dreisbach (Contributor) , Robert L. Cord (Contributor) , Donald L. Drakeman (Contributor)
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Religion and Political Culture in Jefferson's Virginia
Garrett Ward Sheldon (Anthology Editor) , Daniel L. Dreisbach (Anthology Editor) , Mark A. Beliles (Contributor) , Thomas C. Thompson (Contributor) , Charles B. Sanford (Contributor) , Garrett Ward Sheldon (Contributor) , Douglas L. Wilson (Contributor) , Mary-Elaine Swanson (Contributor) , Daniel L. Dreisbach (Contributor) , Robert L. Cord (Contributor) , Donald L. Drakeman (Contributor)
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Description
Religion and Political Culture in Jefferson's Virginia examines the influential statesmen and the political struggles in revolutionary Virginia that played a decisive role in developing a distinctive American approach to religious liberty and church-state relations. This collection of innovative essays by leading scholars profiles the Christian communities in Virginia, analyzes the religious philosophical influences of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and discusses the Virginian contributions to the American experiment in religious liberty. Religion and Political Culture in Jefferson's Virginia presents a fresh perspective on religion's role in Virginian and American political culture and provides a critical reassessment of the existing scholarship in the field.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 The Christian Communities, Religious Revivals, and Political Culture of the Central Virginia Piedmont, 1737-1813
Chapter 3 Perceptions of a 'Deist Church" in Early National Virginia
Part 4 Theological and Philosophical Influences on Jefferson and Madison
Chapter 5 The Religious Beliefs of Thomas Jefferson
Chapter 6 Liberalism, Classicism, and Christianity in Jefferson's Political Thought
Chapter 7 Jefferson and Bolingbroke: Some Notes on the Questions of Influence
Chapter 8 James Madison and the Presbyterian Idea of Man and Government
Part 9 Jefferson and Madison on Church and State
Chapter 10 Church-State Debate in the Virginia Legislature
Chapter 11 Mr. Jefferson's "Non-Absolute" Wall of Separation Between Church and State
Chapter 12 Religion and Legal Reforms in Revolutionary Virginia
Chapter 13 James Madison and the First Amendment Establishment of the Religion Clause
Product details
Published | May 30 2008 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 256 |
ISBN | 9781461731375 |
Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Religion and Political Culture in Jefferson's Virginia, a collection of trenchant essays written by eminent scholars of religion in American public life, brings fresh perspectives and innovative research to the study of religion's role in Virginian and American politics.
National Liberty Journal
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A lively attack on the 'strict-separationist' construction of the Establishment Clause and an attempt to explain why the founders thought that state encouragement of religion supports good government.
Phillip Munoz, Claremont Review of Books
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This is an exceptionally important and readable book. Students of religion and politics owe a deep debt of gratitude to Dreisbach and Sheldon for putting together a systematic correction of myths and misunderstandings about religion and politics in America.
Charles W. Dunn, author of The Scarlet Thread of Scandal: Morality and the American Presidency