Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Formative Years: 1920-1940
Chapter 2 - Setting the Stage: 1940-1946
Chapter 3 - The Cases: 1947-1949
Chapter 4 - The "Fifties" Part One
Chapter 5 - The "Fifties" Part Two
Chapter 6 - The School Prayer Cases
Chapter 7 - The Turning Point
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Steven K. Green is Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated
Professor of History, and Director of the Center for Religion, Law,
and Democracy at Willamette University. He is the author of
Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding,
The Bible, the School, and the Constitution: The Clash That Shaped
Modern Church-State Doctrine, and The Second Disestablishment:
Church and State in Nineteenth-Century
America and co-author of Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court.
"The completion of this latest volume places Green's achievements
on par with other defining works of church-state history.... The
sum of The Third Establishment's cogent, multifaceted argument is
that separationism was neither a precisely defined concept nor
directed exclusively at Catholics. It embodied a diffuse,
secularizing current in American culture which, when paired with
the pluralistic impulses of the Civil Rights era, collapsed under
the
weight of its contradictions. Nonetheless, it defined American
jurisprudence for decades. And no one has done a better job of
illuminating its twentieth-century history than Steven Green." --
Church History
"Green's account of Church-State issues in the mid-twentieth
century is comprehensive, coherent and compelling. Based on
extensive research in primary sources and brimming with astute
analysis, The third disestablishment greatly enhances our
understanding of the relationship between America's government and
its religious institutions and communities." -- Gary Scott Smith,
Grove City College, Pennsylvania, Journal of Ecclesiastical
History
"It is impossible, in such short space, to do justice to what is
easily one of the most important books on the postwar religion
cases to appear in many years." -- John W. Compton, Chapman
University, Journal of Church and State
"Green argues persuasively that previous studies have either missed
or mischaracterized crucial aspects of the story. His revisionist
reading of the material is both subtle and profoundâ. easily one of
the most important books on the postwar religion cases to appear in
many years." -- Journal of Church and State
"Recommended." -- S.B. Lichtman, CHOICE
"Yet another sterling effort by one of America's leading historians
of religious liberty. Having taken us from colonial times to World
War I in three previous volumes, Steven Green now traces the rise
and fall of church-state separation ideals in American law and
culture in the twentieth century. He combines careful legal
analysis of familiar First Amendment cases with a novel account of
the escalating cultural wars over separatist ideals waged in
religious,
political, academic, advocacy, and media circles alike. Here is a
compelling and authoritative story, well and wistfully told."--John
Witte, Jr., Director of the Center for the Study of Law and
Religion, Emory University
"Steven Green is the Charles Dickens of American religious
disestablishmentDLthe preeminent chronicler of the characters,
movements, ideas, and decisions that have shaped church-state
relations in the US. This volume, the latest installment in his
oeuvre, brings the tale into the 1950s, the era of high judicial
disestablishment. It should be required reading for anyone who care
about religious liberty and its history."--Noah R. Feldman, author
of The Three
Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
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