Undermined Establishment: Church-State Relations in America, 1880-1920

by Robert T. Handy

Book Overview

In the middle of the nineteenth century, a stable relationship between American religious organizations and the state was taken for granted. Concord prevailed between the Christian (and largely Protestant) "establishment" on one side and governmental bodies on the other. Here a preeminent scholar of American religious history shows what happened when that settled relationship was tested and challenged. The decades from 1880 to 1920 were marked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691606854
• ISBN13: 9780691606859
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"