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Hardcover The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom Book

ISBN: 0674724755

ISBN13: 9780674724754

The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom

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...

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