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    abolitionism323
    Act for Better Child Care377
    Adams, John Quincy85
    Adams, Judge Arlin151
    Adams, Samuel6, 50
    Adventism78
    Africa, Frank145
    agnostics11
    Agostini v. Felton (1997)255, 415
    airports, Hare Krishna199
    Aleksii II, Russian Orthodox Church229
    Alito, Justice Samuel466
    Allen, Douglas358
    Al Sistani, Ayatollah464
    American Bible Society77
    American Center for Law and Justice397
    American Council of Christian Churches103
    American Enlightenment12
    American flag284
    American Founders503
    American Indian Religious Freedom Act239, 414
    American Orthodox Church260
    American Reformed Protestants49
    American Revolution486
    American Sunday School Union77
    Americans United for Separation of Church and State195, 377, 388, 389
    American Temperance Society77
    American Tract Society77
    American values230
    Anastasius I208
    Ansonia Board of Education v. Philbrook (1986)200
    antebellum spiritual hothouse78
    antidiscrimination laws157
    Aquinas, St. Thomas313
    Arminians47
    Article II28
    Article III28
    Article V28
    Articles of Confederation21, 28, 33
    Arver v. United States (1918)413
    Ashwander v. TVA (1936)184
    Askew, Thomas103
    astrology10
    Atwater, Jeremiah48
    Aum Shinrikyo355
    Awakening9
    Baby Blaines372
    Backus, Isaac253
    Beecher, Henry Ward286
    Beecher, Lyman77
    Berger, Peter321
    Beyer, Peter227
    Bible, authority319
    biblical criticism488
    Bin Laden, Osama464
    Black, Justice Hugo L.210, 219
    Blackstone, William79
    Blavatsky, Helena10
    Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet (1994)257, 263
    Board of Indian Commissioners87
    Boudinot, Elias45
    Bradfield v. Roberts (1899)189
    Bradley, Justice Joseph91
    Brandeis, Justice Louis184
    Braunfeld v. Brown (1961)256
    Brazil, Unification Church355
    Breschel, Edward354
    Breyer, Justice Stephen277, 294
    Bromley, David354
    Brownists6
    Bryan, William Jennings103
    Buchanan, Patrick395
    Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions87
    Butler, Jon78
    Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I208
    California, religion and secular law157
    Campus Crusade for Christ427
    capital punishment321
    Cardozo, Judge Benjamin N.220
    Carter, Stephen L.217
    Casanova, Jose322
    Center for Law and Policy397
    Center for Law and Religious Freedom112
    Champion, Judah52
    Chase, Salmon P.282
    checks and balances466
    Chestnut, Andrew438
    Child Care and Development Block Grant377
    Children of God361
    Chi-Rho cross284
    Christianization, Native Americans84–87
    Christian Reconstruction Movement11
    Christian Voice374
    Church Board86
    Church of Body Modification470, 471
    Church of God in Christ432
    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints See Mormons
    Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993)238–239
    Church of Marijuana152
    Church of Rome58
    Church of Satan229
    Church of the Brethren192
    Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States (1893)189
    Citizens for Excellence in Education389, 391
    Civil and Religious Liberty42
    Civiletti, Benjamin356
    Civilization Fund85
    civil millennialism486
    Clark, Jonas50
    Clark, Justice Tom503
    Clinton, Bill113
    Clinton, Hillary390
    Coalition for the Free Exercise of Religion172
    Cochran v. Louisiana Board of Education (1930)186
    Colorado for Family Values397
    commercialization, Christmas288
    Commission on Law and Social Action106
    Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist (1973)125n., 147, 125n., 148
    commonality, religion250
    compelling state interest382
    Confessions, Augustine51
    congressional testimony138
    Congress of Georgia49
    Constitutional Convention7, 10
    consumerism, Christmas288
    contraceptives, Catholic Church157
    Cooley, Thomas M.80
    County of Allegheny v. ACLU of Pittsburgh (1989)296–297
    Cruz v. Beto (1972)254
    currency, In God We Trust283, 290
    custody battles361
    Cutter v. Wilkinson (2005)173
    Darrow, Clarence103
    Darwinian evolution488
    Davis, Derek358
    Dawson, J. M.104
    D.C. Choice Initiative Act378
    Deane and Polyak v. Conaway (2007)345
    Declaration of Independence7, 29, 280
    Declaration of Religious Freedom (1963)108
    Declaration of Rights55, 56
    Defense of Marriage Act345, 467
    deference test415
    DeMille, Cecil B.284
    democracy, church-state separation15
    democratic faith482
    Democratic Party313
    Dickinson, John45
    dietary accommodation, prison151
    DiIulio, John J., Jr.226
    disunity, religious250
    Divine Science10
    Dominion of New England (1686)54
    Douay Bible82
    Drake, Wiley387
    Duché, Jacob280
    Dunkers5
    Eastern Orthodox9
    Edmunds Act (1882)90, 91
    Edmunds–Tucker Act (1887)90, 91
    Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972)337, 341
    Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004)196, 253
    Ellsworth, Oliver48
    English Act of Toleration (1689)6
    Episcopal Church25
    Equal Access Act375
    Equal Protection Guarantee167
    Equal Rights Amendment112
    Ericsson, Sam377
    Ethical Humanists234
    Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission114
    European Court of Human Rights262
    exercise of religion153
    Family Research Council114, 397
    Federal Marriage Amendment467
    Federal Maternity Act of 1921194
    Fellowship of Legislative Chaplains, Inc.114
    folk religion481
    Food and Drug Administration (FDA)356
    Founding Fathers4
    Fowler, Robert Booth12
    Fox, Jonathan455
    Frankfurter, Justice Felix210, 220
    Fraternal Order of Police Newark Lodge No. 12 v. City of Newark (1999)259
    Freeman, George471
    Free Speech Clause298
    French Enlightenment484
    Friendly, Judge Henry Jacob146
    Friends Committee on National Legislation104
    Froese, Paul439
    Frothingham v. Mellon (1923)194, 195
    Fuller, Chief Justice Melville87
    Gabriel, Ralph H.487
    Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Marker of Massachusetts (1961)257
    Gamwell, Franklin145
    Gandhi, Indira457
    Gandhi, Mahatma457
    General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church115
    General Court (1645)48
    General Union for the Promotion of the Christian Sabbath (GUPCS)77, 78
    George, Robert P.343
    German traditions, Christmas285
    Gerry, Elbridge6
    Ghost dance87
    Gill, Anthony438
    Gillette v. United States (1971)193
    Goesele v. Bimeler (1853)187
    Goldman v. Weinberger (1986)257
    Goldsboro Christian Schools112
    Gonzales v. Archbishop (1929)188
    Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente União do Vegetal (2006)186, 239
    Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001)415
    Goodrich, Samuel286
    Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2004)345
    Graham, Billy489
    Granger, General Gideon78
    Great Migration to America332
    Great Seal of the United States281
    Greek Orthodox250
    Gregorian calendar29
    Gregory, David358
    Grim, Brian J.440
    Grund, Francis428
    Hadden, Jeffrey358
    Hamilton, Alexander30
    Hamilton v. Regents of the University of California (1934)191
    Hammond, Phillip150
    Hancock, John50
    Hand, Judge Brevard143
    Handy, Robert9, 77
    Harmony Society187
    Harris, William Torrey84
    Haskins, George50
    Heaven’s Gate suicides354
    Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness (1981)198, 258
    Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation (2007)196
    Hemmenway, Moses57
    Hempton, David431
    Henry, Patrick32
    Hernandez v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1989)197, 261
    Hindu American Foundation235
    Hobbie v. Unemployment Commission (1987)161, 163
    Holiness Churches155
    Holmes, Justice Oliver Wendell338, 417
    holy experiment, Penn332
    Holy Scripture53
    Holy Trinity Church v. United States (1892)233–234
    Howard, John355
    Howard, Simeon49
    Hubbard, L. Ron261
    Huckabee, Mike392
    Hughes, Chief Justice Charles E.192
    Huguenots5
    human rights411
    Huntington, Samuel454
    Hutchison, John100
    Idaho, territorial law91
    Immigration and Nationality Act432
    Immigration and Naturalization Service356, 359
    Indian Civil Rights Act (1968)381
    In Search of Truth361
    International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. Lee (1992)199, 258
    Intolerable Acts52
    intolerance, church-state separation218–220
    Ireland, Catholic immigration78
    Island Pond Messianic Community361
    Italy, Catholic immigration78
    Ivers, Gregg110
    Jackson, Andrew501
    Jackson, Justice Robert H.336
    Jehovah’s Witnesses v. King County Hospital (1968)413
    Jewish Americans, wartime issues117n., 18
    Johansen, Robin359
    Johnson, Lyndon B.110
    Johnson, Richard M.79
    Jones, Donald481
    Jones v. Wolf (1979)415
    Judeo-Christian tradition488
    Kallen, Horace9
    kashrut laws147
    Kedroff v. St. Nicholas Cathedral of Russian Orthodox Church in North America (1952)260
    Kennedy, James390
    Kent, Chief Justice James46
    Khoumeini, Ayatollah464
    King, Martin Luther, Jr.457, 480
    “Know Nothing” party9, 82, 219
    Knox, Henry85
    Kopelev, Lev229
    Ku Klux Klan219
    LaHaye, Beverly114
    Lakota Ghost dance87
    Lamb’s Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District (1993)115, 130n., 204
    Larson, Carin323
    Late Corporation of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v. United States91
    Laurens, Henry45
    lazy monopoly322
    Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)255
    Liberty Council397
    Linder, Robert483
    Lu, Yungfeng439
    McDaniel v. Paty (1978)415, 508
    McGowan v. Maryland (1961)235
    McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers487, 488
    McKinley, William280
    McLoughlin, William G.487
    McManus, Father William105
    mail delivery, Sunday78, 79
    Malnak v. Yogi (1979)151
    Mann, Horace81
    market model, religion315
    Marriage Protection Amendment467
    Marshall, Justice Thurgood171
    Marsh v. Chambers (1983)235, 296
    Marxist socialism488
    Maryland’s Act of Toleration (1649)6
    May, Henry44
    Mayflower Compact286
    Mead, Sidney481
    Meek v. Pittenger (1975)504
    memorialists, New York78
    Merin, Yuval344
    Mexican–American War379, 380
    Middlebury College48
    Miller, Perry54
    missionaries276
    Mitchell v. Helms (2000)415, 505
    Monroe, James32
    Morgan, Thomas J.86
    Mueller v. Allen (1983)255, 505
    Murray, John Courtney108
    Nachtrieb, Joshua187
    Nader, Ralph312
    National Baptist Convention104
    National Catholic Education Association118n., 24
    National Catholic War Council101
    National Center for Education391
    National Council of Catholic Bishops108
    National Council of Catholic Men105
    National Council of Catholic Women105
    national holidays480
    National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs (COLPA)110–111
    National Labor Relations Board v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago (1973)156–157
    National Labor Relations Board v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago (1979)200, 415
    national mission486
    National Prayer Breakfast489
    nationhood, unity and7–9
    Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act381
    Nativists9
    New American Church149
    New England Baptists214
    New Thought metaphysical churches10
    New v. United States (1917)175n., 26
    Niebuhr, Reinhold483
    Niles, Nathaniel52
    Nobles, Gregory56
    Noelle–Neuman, Elisabeth314
    Northern Baptist Convention104
    Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association v. Peterson (1988)260
    Northwest Ordinance371
    “nursing father” metaphor222n., 23
    Oakes, Urian54
    oath, higher power29
    Occasional Reverberator55
    occult religions10
    office-holders29, 45
    O’Lone v. Estate of Shabazz (1987)259
    O’Neill, J. M.210
    Operation Sojourner359
    Order of St. Benedict v. Steinhauser (1914)187–188
    O’Sullivan, John L.486
    Paine, Thomas6
    Palmer, Susan361
    Papist6
    Payson, Phillips50
    Penn, William332
    Pennsylvania Journal55
    Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925)185, 255
    Pietists5
    Pope John Paul II457
    Powers, Peter48
    Pray for Peace283
    prescription drug coverage157
    Presidential Prayer Breakfast282, 489
    Prince v. Massachusetts (1944)413
    Prison Fellowship Ministries427
    Progressive Unitarians57
    Pro-Life Movement459
    Promise Keepers427
    proto-denominations33
    public religion12
    Purcell, Kathleen359
    purpose-effect-entanglement test295, 296, 416
    Quick Bear v. Leupp (1908)86
    Rapp, George187
    Reichley, A. James321
    Reincarnation10
    Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism (RAC)107–108
    Religious Freedom Amendment of 1998376
    Religious Identification Survey10–11
    Religious Land Use and Incarcerated Persons Act252
    Religious Liberty Protection Act116, 382
    religious nationalism482
    Religious Science10
    Religious Society of Friends104
    Revere, Paul50
    Revolutionary New Divinity52
    Revolutionary period25, 46
    Reynolds, George90
    Reynolds v. United States (1987)159
    Richey, Russell481
    Roberts, Chief Justice John398, 466
    Roosevelt, Theodore282
    Rush, Benjamin44, 81
    Rushdoony, Rousas11
    Russia, monitoring356
    Rutledge, Justice Wiley503
    sacred, cooperation between secular and503–507
    St. Francis of Assisi285
    Sallman, Warner291
    Sanctuary Movement357
    Schmitt, Carl53
    Scopes, John103
    secular, cooperation between sacred and503–507
    secular humanism253
    secularists11
    Seigler, Gretchen361
    Separatists5, 6
    Serbian Orthodox Diocese v. Milivojevich (1976)415
    Seventh-day Baptists200
    sexual behavior331
    Simpson v. Chesterfield County235
    sincerely held religious beliefs469
    slavery, constitution and29
    Smith, Steven143
    Smith, William Jr.55
    social capital316
    social security tax, Amish252
    Society of Friends192
    Society of Separatists of Zoar187
    Socinians47
    Solar Temple suicides354
    Souter, Justice David165
    South Dakota87
    Southern Baptist Convention104, 114
    Soviet Union103
    Stanton, Elizabeth Cady286
    Stark, Rodney433
    Star of David284
    Stiles, Ezra55
    Storer, Judge Bellamy82
    Story, Justice Joseph46
    Strong, Cyprian57
    Sullivan, Andrew343
    Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers143, 145
    Sun dance87
    Sunday mail delivery78, 79
    Sundblom, Haddon288
    Swift, Zephaniah8
    Synagogue Council of America106
    theological liberalism488
    theosophy10
    Thomas, David51
    Thomas v. Review Board (1981)161, 163
    Thompson, William357
    Thomson, Charles45
    Thwing, Charles Franklin231
    Todd, Jonathan52
    Trans World Airlines v. Hardison (1977)199–200
    Treaty with Tripoli (1797)28
    Trinitarian Christian45
    Troeltsch, Ernst53
    true virtue, definition49
    Tushnet, Mark44
    Union of American Hebrew Congregations113
    United Nations104
    United States Catholic Conference108
    United States v. Bland (1931)191, 192
    United States v. Jakobson (1963)146
    United States v. Kauten (1943)146
    United States v. Kuch (1968)149
    United States v. Lee (1982)252
    United States v. Meyers (1995)145, 152
    United States v. Schwimmer (1929)190, 191
    United States v. Welsh (1970)413
    United States v. Welsh (1972)147
    Unity School of Christianity10
    Universal Declaration of Human Rights Charter (1948)456
    Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948405–406
    Universalism78
    Universal Military Training and Service Act233
    utopian societies78
    Vaino, Sharon358
    Valley Forge Christian College195
    Van Buren, Martin79
    Vedanta Society257
    Vidal, Francois189
    Vidal v. Girard’s Executors (1844)188–189
    Waite, Chief Justice Morrison R.90
    Walz v. Tax Commission (1970)156, 508
    Warburton, William45
    War of Independence (1783)24, 192
    Warren, Rick489
    Watchtower Bible and Tract and Tract Society v. Village of Stratton (2002)415
    Watchtower Bible and Tract Society255
    Watson v. Jones (1871)227, 415
    Webster, Noah81
    Weithorn, Stanley358
    Welsh v. United States (1970)193, 469
    Wesley, John431
    Western Christendom54
    Westminster Confession43
    Westside Board of Education v. Mergens (1990)375
    West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)336, 413
    White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives195
    Wiccan leader235
    Wilcox, Clyde323
    Williams, Abraham53
    Williams, Elisha54
    Williams, J. Paul482
    Williams, Robin12
    Wolcott, Oliver6
    Wood, James E., Jr.358
    Woodruff, Wilford91
    Woodward, Israel50
    Worldwide Church of God200
    Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)87
    Wright, Stuart362
    Wuthnow, Robert461
    Wybraniec, John434
    Wyneken, Friedrich432
    Yinger, Milton151
    Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)415, 506
    Zobrest v. Catalina Hills (1993)255, 505
    Zubly, John49
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