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In the middle of the nineteenth century, a stable relationship between American religious organizations and the state was taken for granted. Concord prevailed between the Christian (and largely Protestant) ""establishment"" on one side and governmental bodies on the other. Here a preeminent scholar of American religious history shows what happened when that settled relationship was tested and challenged. The decades from 1880 to 1920 were marked by an unprecedented influx of immigrants (many of whom were Catholics and Jews), increasing conflicts between public and private school systems, exci

In the middle of the nineteenth century, a stable relationship between American religious organizations and the state was taken for granted. Concord prevailed between the Christian (and largely Protestant) ""establishment"" on one side and governmental bodies on the other. Here a preeminent scholar of American religious history shows what happened when that settled relationship was tested and challenged. The decades from 1880 to 1920 were marked by an unprecedented influx of immigrants (many of whom were Catholics and Jews), increasing conflicts between public and private school systems, ex.

The article examines the importance of the religious factor in the life of the poet. The anti-Catholic politics of England is seen as the historical context that influenced Pope's life and personality. Alexander Pope appears as a man who was able to use his extremely unprofitable religious affiliation in forming a career as a professional writer. The author examines the function of Catholicism, the combination of deism, concepts of natural religion, and Christian ideas in Pope's enlightenment consciousness.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Neighbo(u)rly Misreadings and Misconstruals: A Cross-border Conversation -- Part I: Theory and Structure -- 2 Spiritual Economies Beyond the Sacred/Secular Paradigm: Or, What Did Religious Freedom Mean in Ancient India? -- 3 The Aesthetics of Religious Freedom -- 4 Varieties of Native Hawaiian Establishment: Recognized Voices, Routinized Charisma and Church Desecration -- Part II: Retelling Religio-Legal Histories -- 5 Deprivileging Religion in a Post-Westphalian State: Shadow Establishment, Organization, Spirituality and Freedom in Canada -- 6 Religion, Land, Rights -- 7 The Implicit Sharia: Established Religion and Varieties of Secularism in Tunisia -- 8 Church of the Air: Roman Catholics, Religious Programming and Regulation in Canadian Broadcasting, 1918-2008 -- 9 The Five Worlds of Religious Establishment in Taiwan -- PART III: Rethinking Law's Capacities -- 10 The Politics of Religious Establishment: Recognition of Muslim Marriages in South Africa -- 11 Thinking about Cooperation and Collaboration between Diverse Religious and Secular Community Responses to Domestic Violence -- 12 Legal Pluralism and Shari'a in Western Societies: Theories and Hypotheses -- Index.