The Nineteenth-Century Bible Wars and the Separation of Church and State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3307407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tracy Fessenden (Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 784-811 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009640700100897 |
| OpenAlex | W1991998428 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 28 |
In December 2004 the George W. Bush administration filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of two Kentucky counties barred by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals from posting framed copies of the Ten Commandments in their courthouses, alongside a proclamation from President Ronald Reagan marking 1983 as the Year of the Bible. To those who would object that even a minimalist interpretation of the separation of church and state might preclude the prominent display of a religious text in just that place-the courthouse-where the principle of separation is normatively enforced, the White House offered assurance that "Official acknowledgement and recogntion of the Ten Commandments' influence on American legal history comport with the Establishment Clause [of the First Amendment
Acknowledgement · Administration (probate law) · Art history · Establishment Clause · First amendment · George (robot) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Political science · Proclamation · Separation of church and state · State (computer science) · Supreme court · Ten Commandments · White (mutation) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions
Roads to Rome
Separation of Church and State
The Philadelphia Riots of 1844
An American Bible
The Great School Wars
The Culture Factory
The Protestant Crusade, 1800-1860
Religious Benevolence as Social Control
Protestant Schooling and American Nationality, 1800-1850
The Philadelphia Riots of 1844
No Irish need apply
For the Honor and Glory of God
Guardians of Tradition
How the Irish Became White
The Formation of the Catholic Minority in the United States 1820–1860
Church, State, and Education in Historical Perspective
The Foundations of Nativism in American Textbooks, 1783-1860
Separation of Church and State in the United States
Sparing the Rod
New York's School Crisis of 1840-1842
Common School, Common Religion? A Case Study in Church-State Relations, Cincinnati, 1869-70
Emerson and the Church of Rome
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2017 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |