1. RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN EARLY AMERICA; John Winthrop, "A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630); Maryland Act Concerning Religion (1649); William Penn, Frame of Government of Pennsylvania and Laws Agreed Upon in England (1682); James Madison, "Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments" (1785); Thomas Jefferson, Act for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia (1786); 2. SLAVERY AND THE CIVIL WAR
Frederick Douglass, "Love of God, Love of Man, Love of Country" (1847)George Armstrong, The Christian Doctrine of Slavery (1857); Julia Ward Howe, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1862); Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865); 3. MODERNIZING AMERICA; Reynolds v. United States (1878); Pittsburgh Platform of Reform Judaism (1885); Frances Willard, Woman in the Pulpit (1888); Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible (1895); W. E. B. Du Bois, "Of the Faith of the Fathers" (1903); Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)
William Jennings Bryan, "Mr. Bryan's Last Speech" (1925)4. FAITH, FREEDOM, AND THE MEANING OF CITIZENSHIP; Reinhold Niebuhr, "Why the Christian Church Is Not Pacifist" (1940); Dorothy Day, "Wars Are Caused by Man's Loss of His Faith in Man" (1940); Jehovah's Witness Flag Salute Cases: Gobitis (1940) and Barnette (1943); George Docherty, "A New Birth of Freedom" (1954); 5. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND SPIRITUAL DIVERSITY; John F. Kennedy, "Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association" (1960); Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963)
Jerry Falwell, "Ministers and Marches" (1965)Abraham Heschel, "The Moral Outrage of Vietnam" (1967); Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father (1973); 6. THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT AND ITS CRITICS; Engel v. Vitale (1962); Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman (1977); Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto (1981); John Shelby Spong, "Blessing Gay and Lesbian Commitments" (1988); Employment Division v. Smith (1990); 7. GLOBAL RELIGION, GLOBAL POLITICS; George W. Bush, "Freedom at War with Fear" (2001); Ingrid Mattson, "American Muslims Have a 'Special Obligation'" (2001)
