The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Its Evolution and Consequences in American History
Editors:
Martin E. Marty, Edwin S. Gaustad, J. G. A. Pocock, Thomas E. Buckley, S. J., Lance Banning, Rhys Isaac, John T. Noonan, Jr, Cushing Strout, David Little, Richard Rorty, Leo Pfeffer, A. E. Dick Howard
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Published:
October 2003
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9780521892988
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This book examines the famous Jefferson document that foreshadowed the Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute and shepherded it through a decade-long struggle for adoption. The statute reflects two key Revolutionary principles: absolute freedom of religious conscience and the separation of church and state.
- Originated from a symposium held in commemoration of the two hundreth anniversary of the Virgina State for Religious Freedom at the University of Virginia, 1985
- Ssubjects discussed range from constitutional law to philosophy and religion
- Will appeal to a large general audience interested in religion and its expression in American life
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October 2003Paperback
9780521892988
392 pages
229 × 152 × 22 mm
0.57kg
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Table of Contents
- Editors' preface
- The statute of Virginia for religious freedom
- 1. The Virginia statute two hundred years later Martin E. Marty
- 2. Colonial religion and liberty of conscience Edwin S. Gaustad
- 3. Religious Freedom and the desacralization of politics J. G. A. Pocock
- 4. The political theory of Thomas Jefferson Thomas E. Buckley, S. J.
- 5. James Madison, the statute for religious freedom, and the crisis of republican convictions Lance Banning
- 6. 'The rage of malice of the old serpent devil': the dissenters and the making and remaking of the Virginia statute for religious freedom Rhys Isaac
- 7. 'Quota of imps' John T. Noonan, Jr
- 8. Jeffersonian religious liberty and American pluralism Cushing Strout
- 9. Religion and civil virtue in America: Jefferson's statute reconsidered David Little
- 10. The priority of democracy to philosophy Richard Rorty
- 11. Madison's 'detached memoranda': then and now Leo Pfeffer
- 12. The Supreme Court and the serpentine wall A. E. Dick Howard
- Index.
