The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom

by Steven D. Smith

Familiar accounts of religious freedom in the United States often tell a story of visionary founders who broke from the centuries-old patterns of Christendom to establish a political arrangement committed to secular and religiously neutral government. These novel commitments were supposedly embodied in the religion clauses of the First Amendment. But this story is largely a fairytale, Steven D. Smith says in this incisive examination of a much-mythologized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674724755
• ISBN13: 9780674724754
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"