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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: founding fathers and the place of religion in America
  name:
    name part: Lambert, Frank
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 328 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American history from the first British arrivals through Thomas Jefferson's controversial presidency. Lambert recognizes that two sets of spiritual fathers defined the place of religion in early America: what Lambert calls the Planting Fathers, who brought Old World ideas and dreams of building a "City upon a Hill," and the Founding Fathers, who determined the constitutional arrangement of religion in the new republic. While the former proselytized the "one true faith," the latter emphasized religious freedom over religious purity. Lambert locates this shift in the mid-eighteenth century. In the wake of evangelical revival, immigration by new dissenters, and population expansion, there emerged a marketplace of religion characterized by sectarian competition, pluralism, and widened choice. During the American Revolution, dissenters found sympathetic lawmakers who favored separating church and state, and the free marketplace of religion gained legal status as the Founders began the daunting task of uniting thirteen disparate colonies. To avoid discord in an increasingly pluralistic and contentious society, the Founders left the religious arena free of government intervention save for the guarantee of free exercise for all. Religious people and groups were also free to seek political influence, ensuring that religion's place in America would always be a contested one, but never a state-regulated one.
  table of contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Religious regulation -- ch. 1. English heritage -- ch. 2. Transplanting the Church of England in the Chesapeake -- ch. 3. Puritan fathers and the "Christian common-wealth" -- ch. 4. A "holy experiment" in religious pluralism -- pt. 2. Religious competition -- ch. 5. "Trafficking for the Lord" and the expansion of religious choice -- ch. 6. Deists enter the religious marketplace -- ch. 7. Whigs and dissenters fight religious regulation -- pt. 3. Religious freedom -- ch. 8. The American revolution of religion -- ch. 9. Constitutional recognition of a free religious market -- ch. 10. Religion and politics in the presidential campaign of 1800 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
  note: Frank Lambert.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-321) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Church and state
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Freedom of religion
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Religion
    temporal: To 1800
  classification: BR516 .L29 2003
  classification: 322/.1/0973
  identifier: 0691088292 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2002024346
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 020327
    record change date: 20151031143658.0
    record identifier: in00002014437