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Focuses on the arrest of fundamentalist Mormons in a 1953 raid on Short Creek, Arizona by 102 law enforcement officers after Governor Howard Pyle filed papers declaring that a state of insurrection existed at Short Creek. Practice of plural marriage by the fundamentalist Mormons in the area; Details on the conduct of the raid; Relations between the Mormons and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

An essay is presented on preaching in Missouri during the U.S. Civil War. It comments on political preaching, apolitical theology, and the introduction of martial law in Missouri. Several ministers, including William Greenleaf Eliot, Henry A. Nelson, and Robert Farris are discussed. The author also reflects on Methodist minister David Rice McAnally, an opponent of political preaching. Ideas of ministers' disloyalty and treason are considered.

The article looks at the roots of second U.S. second president John Adams's political science in the 18th century. It discusses Adam's efforts to establish a political order and examines his understanding of the American political experiment as well as its aim, significance for all mankind and origin. It also explores his views of the nation's responsibility to advance well-ordered liberty under heaven and the limits of his convictions regarding human nature, power and government.

A biography of Ella Elvira Hobart Gibson, the first female U.S. military chaplain, is presented. Topics covered include her birth on May 8, 1821 in Massachusetts, her reputation as an educator, author, poet, feminist and Spiritualist, and her posthumous appointment to the grade of captain in the U.S. Army's Chaplains Corps. Also mentioned are her service as chaplain to the first Wisconsin Heavy Artillery regiment during the American Civil War and religious pamphlets she published.

The article discusses the development of the religious narrative concept known as the nehemiad in America between the Puritan era and the Founding era that articulated and supported religious involvement in public affairs. It examines the significance of the nehemiad to American Protestant rhetoric, and analyzes the biblical account of the figure Nehemiah. The article contrasts the alleged wall between church and state advocated by U.S. statesman Thomas Jefferson and the wall enclosing the church within the state illustrated by the nehemiad.

The article discusses division and debate within the Unitarian church concerning the use of the pulpit to support the abolition of slavery in the U.S. during the mid-19th century. It examines the views of Unitarian theologian William Ellery Channing, the role of ministers in social change and the importance of revivalism, and the concept of the separation of church and state. It also contrasts Southern Unitarians such as minister Theodore Clapp with other Unitarian ministers whom some thought violated the concept of the duty of noninterference with matters such as slavery.

An essay is presented which discusses the Puritan president of Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts Henry Dunster's opposition to the practice of infant baptism within New England's Puritan movement during the mid 17th century. An overview of the leaders of the Puritan movement's efforts to convince Dunster accept infant baptism is provided.

The article discusses Quaker political thinker and colonial leader William Penn's views as a form of liberal civil religion enacted in the Pennsylvania colony. Topics include Penn's views on liberty of conscience for individuals, his notion that government should promote virtue by upholding religious freedom, and the egalitarian tendencies of Quakerism.

An essay is presented which discusses the petitions voiced against Sabbath laws in the U.S. from 1828 through 1831. Particular focus is given to the attitudes of the petitioners, who are referred to as anti-Sabbatarians, towards the separation of church and state in the U.S, including their interpretation of the U.S. constitution in this regard. An overview of the anti-Sabbatarians of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's social conditions is provided.

The article discusses the relationship between the Korean royal family and American Christian missionaries from the 1890s through the 1900s. An overview of Japan's relations with Korea, including the impact that the Japanese assassination of the Korean Queen Min had on the American missionary and physician Lillias H. Underwood, is provided. An overview of the role that the American Presbyterian missionary Horace G. Underwood played in the investigation of Queen Min's assassination is also provided. Korea King Gojong's relationship with American missionaries is discussed.

An essay is presented concerning the English colonist and Puritan John Winthrop, the religious motivation of English colonists to America and their covenant, and the concept of American exceptionalism. The author argues that Winthrop was not an imperialist. He makes a distinction between imperial American exceptionalism and exemplary American exceptionalism and that Winthrop was an example of the latter. The article also discusses U.S. foreign policy as related to the concept of exceptionalism.

An essay is presented on liberal and progressive constructions of the Christian Right in the United States in the post-World War II era, particularly in academia and journalism. It comments on evangelical opposition to the teaching of evolution and Catholic opposition to eugenics. The author also reflects on the relationship between the Christian Right and anticommunism and examines how Catholics and evangelical Protestants united around the pro-life cause in the late 1970s.

An essay is presented on the response of constitutionalists in the U.S. in the 1920s to Progressivism. It examines religious aspects of American constitutionalism and ideas of constitutional maintenance in the journal "Constitutional Review." The author also explores what he calls the cultural pessimism of the period and explores religious ideas such as man as God's creation, fidelity, and reverence.

The article examines the meaning of the separation of church and state as presented in the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and the various interpretations of its mandate that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The differences in the meaning of freedom of conscience and the concept of religious toleration are assessed. It is noted that the phrase "separation of church and state" does not appear in the U.S. Constitution, but originated from Roger Williams, the founder of the Rhode Island colony. The use of the First Amendment in various court cases involving issues of church and state is discussed.

Reflects of the legacy and influence of the late John Joachim Zubly, pastor of the Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia during the 18th century. Biographical information; Works on Calvinism; Comparison of Zubly to John Witherspoon, a Calvinist Presbyterian.

Focuses on church-state studies in American universities. Formative role played by religion in the history of civilization; Religious diversity characterizing colonial America; Emergence of religious liberty in international law.