Reviews for Family, Commerce, and Religion in London and Cologne Anglo-German Emigrants, C.1000 C.1300

The average rating for Family, Commerce, and Religion in London and Cologne Anglo-German Emigrants, C.1000 C.1300 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-06-18 00:00:00 Chip Wilhelm A dense, fact-packed look at the subject. The book starts in the 19th century with Catholic protests against kids being forced to listen to Protestant prayers and Bible reading, then moves on through countless cases over school prayers, graduation ceremonies and football games and various congressional and state attempts to "put God back into schools" (as DelFattore makes clear, God's never been kicked out). A recurring complication from the first has been that people nominally on the same side have different goals: one Catholic activist wants to get rid of Protestant prayer while another hopes to keep prayer but get funding for parochial schools; some pro-prayer activists want to ensure kids freedom to pray while others insist there's nothing coercive about requiring kids to sit through prayers they don't believe in. Slow going because it's so informative.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-08-18 00:00:00 David Kinser Friends, this book COULD have been super dry and quite frankly, quite boring. But the author clearly shares my adoration for the quirky characters that populate this planet, and so instead it was quite funny. (I mean, I'm not saying it was a laugh a minute, but it was amusing.) All I want to say is my favorite, quirkiest state in the Union is Mississippi, where people GENUINELY say things like, "But if I add [actual] history to my course [on Middle East Biblical HISTORY], I won't be able to get through Nehemiah." Public school problems, y'all.