Thursday, December 19, 2013

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

Stephen M. Feldman (University of Wyoming).  Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas (New York University Press, 1997).

"In Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas, Stephen M. Feldman . . . argues that the separation of church and state primarily manifests and reinforces Christian domination in American society. Furthermore, Feldman reveals that the separation of church and state did not first arise in the United States. Rather, it has slowly evolved as a political and religious development through western history, beginning with the initial appearance of Christianity as it contentiously separated from Judaism."
—Publisher's website