TY - JOUR
AU - Witte, John
AB - Facts and Fictions About the History of Separation of Church and State JOHN WITTE, JR. In the past decade, a veritable cottage industry of important new books, articles, briefs, and judicial opinions has emerged devoted to the history of separation of church and state. We now know a great deal more about the history of separationist rhetoric from Thomas Jefferson’s famous 1802 Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association to Justice Hugo Black’s opinion in the 1947 Supreme Court case of Everson v. Board of Education. We know more about the odious manipulation of separationist rhetoric by the Ku Klux Klan and other nativist groups against Catholics, Jews, and other minority faiths and immigrant groups in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And we now see more clearly than before that Justice Black drew some �JOHN WITTE, JR. (J.D., Harvard) is Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. A specialist in legal history, marriage, and religious liberty, he has published 120 articles and 18 books, including recently, Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation (2002); Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (2d ed., 
TI - Facts and Fictions About the History of Separation of Church and State
JO - Journal of Church and State
DO - 10.1093/jcs/48.1.15
DA - 2006-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/facts-and-fictions-about-the-history-of-separation-of-church-and-state-RCwUo4XIzN
SP - 15
EP - 45
VL - 48
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -