The secular revolution : power, interests, and conflict in the secularization of American public life / edited by Christian Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Christian, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secularism.

History.

United States--Church history.

United States.

Church history.

Secularism--United States--History.

Church and state--United States--History.

Church and state.

Protestant churches--United States--History.

Protestant churches.

Physical Description:

xii, 484 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]

Summary:

This collection presents a radical rethinking of the secularization of American public life. Long awaited, much anticipated, and sure to be controversial.

Contents:

1. Introduction : rethinking the secularization of American public life / Christian Smith

2. Secularizing American higher education : the case of early American sociology / Christian Smith

3. Educational elites and the movement to secularize public education : the case of the National Education Association / Kraig Beyerlein

4. The positivist attack on Baconian science and religious knowledge in the 1870s / Eva Marie Garroutte

5. Power, ridicule, and the destruction of religious moral reform politics in the 1920s / P.C. Kemeny

6. "My own salvation" : the Christian century and psychology's secularizing of American Protestantism / Keith G. Meador

7. From Christian civilization to individual civil liberties : framing religion in the legal field, 1880-1949 / David Sikkink

8. Reforming education, transforming religion, 1876-1931 / George M. Thomas, Lisa R. Peck, and Channin G. De Haan

9. Promoting a secular standard : secularization and modern journalism, 1870-1930 / Richard W. Flory

10. After the fall : attempts to establish an explicitly theological voice in debates over science and medicine after 1960 / John H. Evans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0520230000

0520235614

OCLC:

50738211