Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land: A History of Church and State in America

by Edwin S. Gaustad

Should prayer be allowed in public schools? Should biology be taught according to Darwin or to the book of Genesis? Why is polygamy against the law? These are just a few of the questions that touch our lives directly and emerge out of the separation of church and state. In this volume, one of the most distinguished scholars of American religious history traces the complicated relationship of church and state from the early colonial period, through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195166876
• ISBN13: 9780195166873
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.8"