The Religious Roots of the First Amendment

Miller, Nicholas P.

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“…Under the leadership of Roger Williams, Baptists founded the State of Rhode Island in protest against the Puritan intolerance of their dissenting Protestant theology. Miller ( 2012 ) argues that such theological defenses of toleration by early dissenting Protestants were the root cause of the disestablishment clause in the U.S. Constitution. Throughout the Colonial period and after, the capacity to read the Bible was seen as a critical motivation for literacy teaching and learning in schools (e.g., Applebee, 1974 ;Monaghan, 2005 ).…”

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“…Throughout the Colonial period and after, the capacity to read the Bible was seen as a critical motivation for literacy teaching and learning in schools (e.g., Applebee, 1974 ;Monaghan, 2005 ). The Bible in this milieu furnished Puritans with a rationale for viewing Native Americans as godless heathens who needed Christianity and civilizing Christian culture, an interpretation somewhat resisted by Williams (Miller, 2012 ).…”

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American Evangelical Biblicism as Literate Practice: A Critical Review

Juzwik

2014

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Practices of Biblical reading and interpretation are central to the literacy lives of those who call themselves evangelical Christians. More than one third of the U.S. population identifies as evangelical Christians, making evangelical Biblicism a pervasive and influential—if under‐the‐radar—literacy practice in U.S. life. Scholars of American evangelicalism have traditionally understood belief in the Bible as authoritative as one defining characteristic of the evangelical subculture in the United States. However, scholars interested in language, interpretation, and textual practices are only beginning to map out the contours of the literacy practices and ideologies entailed by American evangelical Biblicism. Critically reviewing scholarship across history, anthropology, religious studies, and sociology, I characterize evangelical Biblicism as an interpretive tradition mediated by a complex set of sociocultural practices and textual ideologies. From this standpoint, Biblicism involves the unceasing work of establishing and sustaining a transitive relationship among biblical text, right beliefs, and righteous actions. This set of relations gives rise to an interpretive tension that evangelicals have historically navigated between the necessity of interpretive freedom, allowing the Bible to live anew for each generation of believers (presence in the world), and the unchanging Truth of God's word (the purity of the Word). Evangelicals dialogically mediate the transitivity among text, belief, and action—and attendant tensions between the purity of the Biblical Word and its presence in the world—in textual communities. Bibles themselves function as mediating literacy artifacts and articles of commerce in a global evangelical print culture. This understanding of American evangelical Biblicism as literate practice raises new questions and issues for literacy scholarship, related to how young people are introduced to evangelical Biblicist traditions and practices; how evangelical Biblicist traditions, practices, and ideologies travel around, across, and beyond textual communities; and how evangelical Biblicism shapes teaching and learning in schools.

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Section: Contextualizing American Evangelicalismmentioning

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Section: Contextualizing American Evangelicalismmentioning

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American Evangelical Biblicism as Literate Practice: A Critical Review

Juzwik

2014

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“…Furthermore, the American constitution expanded the democratic rights and liberties of citizens (thus advancing English legislation, which had already guaranteed rights to the aristocracy over the monarchy) (Miller 2012;Berman 2003;Witte 2002).…”

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“…Instead, it underwent abrupt transformation through the Bolshevik revolution, which was inspired, in part, by the eighteenth-century French Enlightenment, and later proclaimed atheism. Moreover, the Russian Revolution led to a totalitarian state that distorted the ideals of social democracy (Berman 2003, p. 18); (Miller 2012).…”

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“…Historical timeline of some key religio-political events in Christendom (Source: Author's chart; based on the theoretical framework of this study). Among others, sources include Woodberry (2012), Miller (2012), Acemoglu et al (2011), Snyder (2011), Bruce (2007), Berman (2003), Witte (2002), Heussi (1991) Christianity has been central to Western civilisation. Nevertheless, the diverse historical trajectories of the various Christian denominations first established and later determined different sets of societal norms and institutions.…”

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“Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits”: Prosperity and Institutional Religion in Europe and the Americas

Portilla

2019

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Low competitiveness is a common denominator of historically Roman Catholic countries. In contrast, historically Protestant countries generally perform better in education, social progress, and competitiveness. Jesus Christ described the true and false prophets coming on his behalf, as follows: “Ye shall know them by their fruits”. Inspired by this parable, this paper explores the relations between religious systems (‘prophets’) and social prosperity (‘fruits’). It asks how Protestantism influences prosperity as compared to Roman Catholicism in Europe and the Americas. Most empirical studies have hitherto disregarded the institutional influence of religion. Taking the work of Max Weber as their starting point, they have instead emphasised the cultural linkage between religious adherents and prosperity. This paper tests various correlational models and draws on a comprehensive conceptual framework to understand the institutional influence of religion on prosperity in Europe and the Americas. It argues that the uneven contributions of Roman Catholicism and Protestantism to prosperity are grounded in their different historical and institutional foundations and in the theologies that are pervasive in their countries of influence.

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Religion and the Nineteenth‐Century Supreme Court, 1811–78

Mazur¹

2016

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S.

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The Religious Roots of the First Amendment

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American Evangelical Biblicism as Literate Practice: A Critical Review

American Evangelical Biblicism as Literate Practice: A Critical Review

“Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits”: Prosperity and Institutional Religion in Europe and the Americas

Religion and the Nineteenth‐Century Supreme Court, 1811–78

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