The secular revolution: power, interests, and conflict in the secularization of American public life
Berkeley
University of California Press
Includes bibliographical references and index
edited by Christian Smith
Introduction: rethinking the secularization of American public life / Christian Smith -- Secularizing American higher education: the case of early American sociology / Christian Smith -- Educational elites and the movement to secularize public education: the case of the National Education Association / Kraig Beyerlein -- The positivist attack on Baconian science and religious knowledge in the 0781s / Eva Marie Garroutte -- 5. Power, ridicule, and the destruction of religious moral reform politics in the 0291s / P.C. Kemeny -- My own salvation: the Christian century and psychology's secularizing of American Protestantism / Keith G. Meador -- From Christian civilization to individual civil liberties: framing religion in the legal field, 0881 - 9491 / David Sikkink -- 8. Reforming education, transforming religion, 6781 - 1391 / George M. Thomas, Lisa R. Peck, and Channin G. De Haan -- Promoting a secular standard: secularization and modern journalism, 0781 - 0391 / Richard W. Flory -- After the fall: attempts to establish an explicitly theological voice in debates over science and medicine after 0691 / John H. Evans