Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State Book

	Preface
1	Introduction: Different Stories	1
	A Story about the Ways of Power	1
	A Dominant Story about the Separation of Church and State	3
2	Origins of Power: The Emergence of Christianity and Antisemitism	10
	The New Testament	10
	The Christian Discourse of Redefinition: An Excursus on Power	15
	The Roman Establishment of Christianity: The First Crystallization of Church and State	21
3	The Christian Middle Ages	28
	The Early Middle Ages	28
	The Later Middle Ages	37
4	The Christian Renaissance and Reformation in Continental Europe	50
	The Renaissance	50
	The Lutheran Reformation	54
	The Calvinist Reformation	64
5	The English Reformation, Civil War, and Revolution	79
	The English Reformation	80
	The Civil War, Restoration, and Revolution	84
	English Political Theory	98
	Church and State at the End of the Seventeenth Century	116
6	The North American Colonies	119
	The Early Years: Calvinist Roots	119
	Christian Declension and Revival	133
7	The American Revolution and Constitution	145
	The Revolution and Its Aftermath	145
	The Constitution	158
8	The Fruits of the Framing: Church and State in Nineteenth - And Early-Twentieth-Century America	175
	The Nineteenth Century	175
	Church and State in the Early Twentieth Century	203
9	The Fruits of the Framing: Church and State in Late-Twentieth-Century America	218
	The Supreme Court Intervenes	218
	A Brief Assessment of the Supreme Court Cases	246
10	A Synchronic Analysis of the Separation of Church and State in the Late Twentieth Century: Concluding Remarks	255
	Symbolic Power	256
	Structural Power	265
	The Interaction of Symbolic and Structural Power	270
	Final Thoughts: A Political Statement	282
	Notes	287
	Selected Bibliography	376
	Index	389