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The garden and the wilderness : church and state in America to 1789 / David Dean Bowlby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowlby, David Dean.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church and state--United States--History--17th century.
- Church and state.
- Church and state--United States--History--18th century.
- United States--Church history--17th century.
- United States.
- United States--Church history--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland. : Lexington Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Garden and the Wilderness examines church and state in the colonial and early national periods up to the framing of the religion clauses of the First Amendment by the First Congress. Throughout, the book focuses on the relationship between religious establishments and free exercise.
- Contents:
- The Old World background
- Seventeenth century New England
- The seventeenth century South
- The Middle Colonies in the seventeenth century
- Developments in the eighteenth century
- The Revolution & new state constitutions
- The conventions & First Congress.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references ([199]-206) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-34790-3
- 0-7391-8423-7
- 0-7391-7027-9
- OCLC:
- 861559767
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