Download or read book Private Churches and Public Money written by Paul J. Weber and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1981-05-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Funds for Church and Private Schools written by Richard James Gabel and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Charities Public Lands and Public Money written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Charities Public Lands and Public Money written by John Rose Greene Hassard and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God and Mammon written by Mark A. Noll and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-29 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of all new essays by leading historians offers a close look at the connections between American Protestants and money in the Antebellum period. During the first decades of the new American nation, money was everywhere on the minds of church leaders and many of their followers. Economic questions figured regularly in preaching and pamphleteering, and they contributed greatly to perceptions of morality both public and private. In fact, money was always a religious question. For this reason, argue the authors of these essays, it is impossible to understand broader cultural developments of the period--including political developments--without considering religion and economics together. In God and Mammon, several essays examine the ways in which the churches raised money after the end of establishment put a stop to state funding, such as the collection of pew rents, lotteries, and free-will offerings, which only came later and at first were used only for benevolent purposes. Other essays look at the role of money and markets in the rise of Christian voluntary societies. Still others examine the inter-denominational strife, documenting frequent accusations that theological error led to the misuse of money and the arrogance of wealth. Taken together, the essays provide essential background to an issue that continues to loom large and generate controversy in the Protestant community in America.
Download or read book The Mixing of Church and State written by Stephen F. Monsma and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When Sacred and Secular Mix written by Stephen V. Monsma and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the world of religiously based, private, nonprofit organizations and their receipt of public funds. [Introduction].
Download or read book Church Schools Public Money written by Edd Doerr and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Parochiaid" - any form of direct or indirect aid to parochial and other nonpublic elementary and secondary schools - has given rise to the most enduring, bitter, and important controversy in the history of American education and church-state relations. Edd Doerr and Albert J. Menendez, examining and critiquing the attitudes and activities of federal, state, and local government regarding parochiaid, offer a searing indictment of the resurgent drive to support sectarian schools wtih tax dollars. Concentrating on the last five decades, during which the parochiaid lobbies have gained in influence, the authors reveal that lawmakers in forty-two states have increased tax support of church schools to more than $1 billion per year - despite the fact that voters have rejected such aid in seventeen of eighteen statewide referenda held since 1966. Church Schools and Public Money includes a state-by-state survey of the most generous giveaways; revealing statistics on nonpublic school enrollments; and an examination of the biases taught by sectarian schools, particularly those operated by Protestant fundamentalists. The authors skillfully summarize the case against parochiaid and uncover the faulty reasoning of its advocates. According to Doerr and Menendez, the sectarian special interests and their political allies threaten democratic public education and the constitutional separation of church and state.
Download or read book The Mixing of Church and State written by Stephen F. Monsma and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grants of Public Money Ecclesiastical Establishments c Further Return of Grants for Support of All Religious Denominations and for Building and Repairing Churches c written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God and Government written by Ann E. Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes church-state relations, considering situations in which government and religion have supported each other as well as those in which the two are in conflict.
Download or read book God Schools and Government Funding written by Laurence H. Winer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, over vigorous dissents, has developed circumventions to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment that allow state legislatures unabashedly to use public tax dollars increasingly to aid private elementary and secondary education. This expansive and innovative legislation provides considerable governmental funds to support parochial schools and other religiously-affiliated education providers. That political response to the perceived declining quality of traditional public schools and the vigorous school choice movement for alternative educational opportunities provokes passionate constitutional controversy. Yet, the Court’s recent decision in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn inappropriately denies taxpayers recourse to challenge these proliferating tax funding schemes in federal courts. Professors Winer and Crimm clearly elucidate the complex and controversial policy, legal, and constitutional issues involved in using tax expenditures - mechanisms such as exclusions, deductions, and credits that economically function as government subsidies - to finance private, religious schooling. The authors argue that legislatures must take great care in structuring such programs and set forth various proposals to ameliorate the highly troubling dissention and divisiveness generated by state aid for religious education.
Download or read book The Purple Economy written by Australian National Secular Association and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this provocative book Max Wallace argues democracies should be republics characterised by constitutional separations of church and state. Wallace argues the separation of secular authority from supernatural authority should be understood as the first separation of powers in a democracy, prior to, and equivalent to, the separations between the executive, legislature and judiciary. The failure of democracies to fully realise this distinction constitutionally has seen churches become immensely wealthy as a consequence of their centuries old tax-exempt status as charities that 'advance religion'. Their wealth is now a recognisable financial phenomenon - the Purple Economy. But, following the French principle, Wallace argues it is not the role of state to 'advance religion'. Ancient exemptions from taxation for the 'supernatural' charities who are under no obligation to spend their wealth on 'good works', are not appropriate for the 21st century. They should be treated for tax purposes the same as other taxpayers. The failure of governments to formalise separation of church and state has contributed to the significant wealth of supernatural charities largely as a function of the exemptions. These are effectively concealed tithes on all taxpayers. At the same time church attendance has plummeted. Central to supernatural proselytising is their lobbying success in achieving more public money for private, religious schools. Public education has been betrayed by compliant politicians from both sides as they run what are effectively soft theocracies: democracies compromised by constitutional monarchy and/or supernatural charities and their tax exemptions."--Book cover.
Download or read book Swaggart written by Ann Rowe Seaman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-01-04 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1987 Swaggart was one of the most popular video preachers in the world, with a weekly television audience of 2.1 million in the US and a worldwide audience of millions more in 143 countries. But then, in a cheerless motel west of New Orleans, Jimmy's life and ministry took a calamitous turn. This the tale of the rise of two intimately linked colossi of the American century: Pentecostalism, the fastest growing religious movement in the world, and its "evil twin", Rock 'n' Roll. A major theme of the book is how the religious ecstasy of Pentecostalism - the rousing music, the speaking in tongues, the reception of the Spirit - combined with its severe sexual repression leads to the kind of furtive acting out that brought down not only Jimmy Swaggart but also other evangelists. It is the story, too, of the rapid rise of the Religious Right, with its competing personalities and ideologies. In the end, the author sees Jimmy as a victim - like many others - of a primitive faith colliding with the forces of the late 20th century fame.
Download or read book Public Opinion written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society written by Wisconsin State Agricultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 22-26 contents include: Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Wisconsin, no. 1-5.
Download or read book Church and State in America A Bibliographical Guide written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1987-08-14 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in a two-volume bibliography on church-state relations in U.S. history, this book contains eleven critical essays and accompanying bibliographical listings on periods or topics from the Civil War to the present day. Each essay reviews the available relevant literature, and the listings emphasize critical studies and documents published in the last quarter-century. This reference work will enable the reader to grasp the historiographic issues, become acquainted with the resources available, and move on to interpret current as well as past issues more knowledgebly and effectively.
