The secular revolution : power, interests, and conflict in the secularization of American public life / edited by Christian Smith.
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2003], ©2003.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 484 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 1. Introduction : rethinking the secularization of American public life / Christian Smith
- 2. Secularizing American higher education : the case of early American sociology / Christian Smith
- 3. Educational elites and the movement to secularize public education : the case of the National Education Association / Kraig Beyerlein
- 4. The positivist attack on Baconian science and religious knowledge in the 1870s / Eva Marie Garroutte
- 5. Power, ridicule, and the destruction of religious moral reform politics in the 1920s / P.C. Kemeny
- 6. "My own salvation" : the Christian century and psychology's secularizing of American Protestantism / Keith G. Meador
- 7. From Christian civilization to individual civil liberties : framing religion in the legal field, 1880-1949 / David Sikkink
- 8. Reforming education, transforming religion, 1876-1931 / George M. Thomas, Lisa R. Peck, and Channin G. De Haan
- 9. Promoting a secular standard : secularization and modern journalism, 1870-1930 / Richard W. Flory
- 10. After the fall : attempts to establish an explicitly theological voice in debates over science and medicine after 1960 / John H. Evans.