Religious Lessons Catholic Sisters and the Captured In Religious Lessons Kathleen Holscher makes churchstate jurisprudence a matter of rich cultural history From the tangle of Catholic sisters teaching in New Mexicos public schools Holscher discloses a national drama that galvanized proponents of Jeffersons wall of separation in the late 1940s and 1950s Religious Lessons Catholic Sisters and the Captured This book tells the story of Zellers v Huff a lawsuit that challenged the employment of nearly 150 Catholic religious in public schools across New Mexico in 1948 The “Dixon case” was the most famous in a series of midcentury suits targeting what opponents dubbed “captive schools” Religious Lessons Hardcover Kathleen Holscher Oxford Religious Lessons Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico Kathleen Holscher A nuanced take on Catholic and Protestant relations A examination of an understudied incident based on the authors access to new sources Reliant upon methodological innovation in bringing together legal history and lived religion Religious lessons Catholic sisters and the captured Religious lessons Catholic sisters and the captured schools crisis in New Mexico Kathleen A Holscher Religious Lessons tells the story of Zellers v Huff a court case that challenged the employment of nearly 150 Catholic sisters in public schools across New Mexico in 1948 Religious Lessons Catholic Sisters and the Captured Religious Lessons Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico By Kathleen Holscher New York Oxford University Press 2012 xii 274 pp 5500 cloth Project MUSE Religious Lessons Catholic Sisters and the Religious Lessons Catholic Sisters and the Captured School Crisis in New Mexico by Kathleen Holscher Christine Baudin Hernandez Religious Lessons Catholic Sisters and the Captured School Crisis in New Mexico Religious Lessons Catholic Sisters and the Captured Religious Lessons tells the story of Zellers v Huff a court case that challenged the employment of nearly 150 Catholic religious in public schools across New Mexico in 1948 The Dixon case as it was known nationally was the most famous in a series of midcentury lawsuits all targeting what opponents provocatively dubbed captive schools IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO CATHY Kathleen Holscher Religious Lessons Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico 31 2012 And federal officials displayed “a strong distrust of the Catholic religion” in their attempt to exert control over the Territory Captured POAU and the National Campaign against Captive This chapter deals with the organization Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State POAU and the captive schools campaign it promoted in response to sistertaught public education In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 1947 decision in Everson v Board of Education New Mexico’s schools and others like them became mediums for deferring disagreements Religious Sisters’ Continuing Impact on Catholic Education Bishop Thomas Walsh became a great friend and supporter of the sister when he became bishop of Trenton Later named archbishop of Newark he insisted on having the congregation teaching there Hence the congregation also views him as a cofounder Today the Filippini sisters have several schools in New Jersey
Title : Religious Lessons: Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico
ISBN : 0190462493
Release Date : 2016-01-01
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