Secular Revolution Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life

Name: Secular Revolution Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life
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ISBN: 9780520235618

ISBN-10: 0520235614

ISBN-13: 9780520235618

Edition: 2003

Authors: Christian Smith

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Sociologists, historians, and other social observers have long considered the secularization of American public life over the past hundred and thirty years to be an inevitable and natural outcome of modernization. This groundbreaking work rejects this view and fundamentally rethinks the historical and theoretical causes of the secularization of American public life between 1870 and 1930. Christian Smith and his team of contributors boldly argue that the declining authority of religion was not the by-product of modernization, but rather the intentional achievement of cultural and intellectual elites, including scientists, academics, and literary intellectuals, seeking to gain control of…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English



Preface



Introduction: Rethinking the Secularization of American Public Life




Secularizing American Higher Education: The Case of Early American Sociology




Educational Elites and the Movement to Secularize Public Education: The Case of the National Education Association




The Positivist Attack on Baconian Science and Religious Knowledge in the 1870s




Power, Ridicule, and the Destruction of Religious Moral Reform Politics in the 1920s




"My Own Salvation": The Christian Century and Psychology's Secularizing of American Protestantism




From Christian Civilization to Individual Civil Liberties: Framing Religion in the Legal Field, 1880-1949




Reforming Education, Transforming Religion, 1876-1931




Promoting a Secular Standard: Secularization and Modern Journalism, 1870-1930




After the Fall: Attempts to Establish an Explicitly Theological Voice in Debates over Science and Medicine after 1960



Contributors


Index