Dr. Kevin Pybas was one of the featured speakers for the formal release of Disestablishment and Religious Dissent from the University of Missouri Press. The book is edited by Carl H. Esbeck and Jonathan J. Den Hartog.
According to the press release, “The volume makes a unique scholarly contribution by recounting in detail the process of disestablishment in each of the colonies, as well as religion’s constitutional and legal place in the new states of the federal republic.”
After the War of Independence, “the delegates to the state conventions were forced to address the issue of church-state relations. Each colony had unique and differing traditions of church-state relations rooted in the colony’s peoples, their country of origin, and religion.”
Dr. Pybas’s chapter is entitled, “Disestablishment in the Louisiana and Missouri Territories.”
For more information about the book, see Disestablishment.