Disestablishment and religious dissent : church-state relations in the new American states, 1776-1833

Disestablishment and religious dissent : church-state relations in the new American states, 1776-1833

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2019.

xxii, 437 p. ; 24 cm.

322.1 D611 2019

(OCoLC)1108787237

Contents: Introduction : the task, methodology, and findings / Carl H. Esbeck and Jonathan J. Den Hartog -- Disestablishment in New Jersey / John Fea -- Delaware : religious borderland / Evan Haefeli -- Church and state in Rhode Island / James S. Kabala -- The Pennsylvania experiment with freedom of conscience and church-state relations / David Little -- North Carolina : early toleration and disestablishment / Nicholas P. Miller -- Religious disestablishment in the state of New York / Kyle T. Bulthuis -- Disestablishment in Virginia, 1776-1802 / Carl H. Esbeck -- South Carolina / Miles Smith IV -- Disestablishment in Kentucky / Keith Harper -- Disestablishment in Tennessee / Edward R. Crowther -- Georgia : the thirteenth colony / Joel A. Nichols -- Church and state in Ohio, 1785-1833 / Michael S. Ariens -- Disestablishment in the Louisiana and Missouri Territories / Kevin Pybas -- In the interests of true religion : disestablishment in Vermont / Shelby M. Balik -- Church and state in Maryland : religious liberty, religious tests, and church disestablishment / Michael D. Breidenbach -- Connecticut : a land of steady habits / Robert J. Imholt -- Towns and toleration : disestablishment in New Hampshire / Brian Franklin -- Maine / Marc M. Arkin -- Florida / Nathan A. Adams IV -- The last American establishment : Massachusetts, 1780-1833 / John Witte Jr. and Justin Latterell.|On May 10, 1776, the Second Continental Congress sitting in Philadelphia adopted a resolution which set in motion a round of constitution making in the colonies, several of which soon declared themselves sovereign states and severed all remaining ties to the British Crown. In forming these written constitutions, the delegates to the state conventions were forced to address the issue of church-state relations. Each colony had unique and differing traditions of church-state relations rooted in the colonys peoples, their country of origin, and religion. This definitive volume, comprising twenty-one original essays ..., is a comprehensive state-by-state account of disestablishment in the original thirteen states, as well as a look at similar events in the soon-to-be-admitted states of Vermont, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Also considered are disestablishment in Ohio (the first state admitted from the Northwest Territory), Louisiana and Missouri (the first states admitted from the Louisiana Purchase), and Florida (wrestled from Spain under U.S. pressure) ...--Book jacket.|Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-426) and index.|L2022M55

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