Author | Verhoeven, Timothy. author. Author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut |
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Title | Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America [electronic resource] / by Timothy Verhoeven |
Imprint | Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 |
Connect to | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02877-0 |
Descript | IX, 286 p. 10 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource |
1. Introduction -- 2. "Stepping Stone to an Establishment": The 1785 Campaign Against the Religious Tax in Virginia -- 3. “Prostrating our rights on the altar of superstition and bigotry”:The Sunday Mail Controversy in the Early Republic -- 4. “Exposing priestcraft and all its cognate -isms”: Chaplains, Temperance and Sunday Travel -- 5. “God’s Vice-Regents”: Political Preachers and the Crisis over Slavery -- 6. How Christian Were the Founders? God and the Constitution After the Civil War -- 7. The Bible Wars: Religion, Morality and Schools in an International Age -- 8. “Sunday clubs for wealthy people”: Taxing the Churches -- 9. “A professedly national secular show”: The World’s Fair Sunday Opening Controversy -- 10. Conclusion