| Contents |
Introduction / John Witte, Jr. -- The separation of church and state versus religion in the public square : the contested history of the Establishment Clause / T. Jeremy Gunn -- Establishment at the founding / Michael W. McConnell -- Disestablishing religion and protecting religious liberty in state laws and constitutions (1776-1833) / Mark D. McGarvie -- Roger Williams and the Puritan background of the Establishment Clause / David Little -- Toleration and diversity in New Netherland and the Duke's Colony : the roots of America's first disestablishment / Paul Finkelman -- James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and the meaning of "establishment of religion" in eighteenth-century Virginia / Ralph Ketcham -- The Continental Congress and emerging ideas of church-state separation / Derek H. Davis -- The First Federal Congress and the formation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment / Carl H. Esbeck -- Defining and testing the prohibition on religious establishments in the early Republic / Daniel L. Dreisbach -- The "second disestablishment" : the evolution of nineteenth-century understandings of separation of church and state / Steven K. Green -- Disestablishment from Blaine to Everson : federalism, school wars, and the emerging modern state / Thomas C. Berg -- Some reflections on fundamental questions about the original understanding of the Establishment Clause / Kent Greenawalt -- Getting beyond "the myth of Christian America" / Martin E. Marty. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011043410 |
| ISBN | 9780199860395 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0199860394 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780199860371 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0199860378 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
