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- Title
Our Schools, Our Country: American Evangelicals, Public Schools, and the Supreme Court Decisions of 1962 and 1963.
- Authors
LAATS, ADAM
- Abstract
American evangelicals have long maintained a tense and paradoxical relationship to mainstream American culture. This article explores the effect of the 1962 and 1963 United States Supreme Court school decisions on that perennial tension. Unlike many conservatives, conservative evangelicals greeted the court's 1962 Engel decision to ban state-written prayer in public schools with cautious approval; however, evangelicals saw the 1963 Schempp decision to ban Bible reading and the Lord's Prayer from those schools as an affront. The unique relationship between evangelical belief and America's public school system forced evangelicals to reconsider their special place in both schools and society as a whole. They concluded with surprising unanimity that those school decisions had done more than forced evangelical belief out of America's public schools; the decisions had pushed evangelicals themselves out of America's mainstream culture.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SCHOOL prayer; EVANGELICAL churches &; politics; EVANGELICALISM; ENGEL v. Vitale; ABINGTON School District v. Schempp; FREEDOM of religion; RELIGION in the public schools; RELIGION &; social status; PROTESTANT press; MCINTIRE, Carl, 1906-2002; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Journal of Religious History, 2012, Vol 36, Issue 3, p319
- ISSN
0022-4227
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9809.2012.01170.x