Santa Clara University

Thomas E. Buckley, S.J.

Professor of American Religious History
A.B., Ph.L., Gonzaga University; M.A., Loyola University, Los Angeles; M.Div., Weston School of Theology; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Email: tbuckley@jstb.edu

Download a course syllabus for the following courses:

• HSRS 4162: U.S. Catholics and Vatican II
• HS 2499: Modern Christianity
• CEHS 2542: Pacifism and Peace Movements

About the Professor

Fr. Buckley's research interests are in American religious history with an emphasis on church-state relations and the interaction of religion with social policy. He is the author of Church and State in Revolutionary Virginia, 1776-1787 (Virginia, 1977) and The Great Catastrophe: Divorce in the Old Dominion (North Carolina, 2002), and editor of "If You Love That Lady Don't Marry Her": The Courtship Letters of Sally McDowell and John Miller, 1854-1856 (Missouri, 2000). He is currently working on a study of the implementation of Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom in Virginia between 1787 and 1940.