Religious Lessons

• A nuanced take on Catholic and Protestant relations
• An examination of an under-studied incident based on the author's access to new sources
• Reliant upon methodological innovation in bringing together legal history and lived religion

Readership: Students of religious studies, American studies, American history, or American Catholicism; Scholars and general readers with an interest in New Mexico / the American Southwest.

Kathleen Holscher, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University

Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Educating in the Vernacular: The Foundations of Sister-Taught Public Schools
2. "We Live in a Valley Cut Off from the Outside World:" Local Observations on Sisters and the Separation of Church and State
3. A Space in Between Walls: Inside the Sister-Taught Public Classrooms of New Mexico
4. Captured!: POAU and the National Campaign against Captive Schools
5. Habits on Defense: The NCWC and the Legal Debate over Sisters' Clothing
6. Sisters and the Trials of Separation
Epilogue
Bibliography