How free can religion be? /Randall P. Bezanson.
Bezanson, Randall P.,
How free can religion be? /Randall P. Bezanson. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2006. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
God's law or Caesar's? The free exercise of religion -- The wall of separation : "No law respecting an establishment of religion -- " -- The Amish conundrum : the conflict between free exercise and non-establishment -- Darwin versus Genesis -- School prayer -- Peyote : God versus Caesar, revisited -- Non-establishment as nondiscrimination -- Equality as a sword : the ghost of Everson.
In tracking the evolution of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clause doctrine through Key Supreme Court decisions on religious freedom, legal scholar Randall P. Bezanson focuses on the court's shift from strict separation of church and state to a position where the government accommodates and even fosters religion. Beginning with samples from the latter half of the nineteenth century, the detailed case studies present new problems and revisit old ones as well: the purported belief of polygamy in the Mormon Church; state support for religious schools; the teaching of evolution and creationism in public schools; Amish claims for exemption from compulsory education laws; comparable claims for Native American religion in relation to drug laws; and rights of free speech and equal access by religious groups in colleges and public schools.
9780252090530 9781283097499
2019717300
GBA635825 bnb
013436710 Uk
Church and state--United States.
Freedom of religion--United States.
Electronic Books.
KF4865 / .H694 2006
How free can religion be? /Randall P. Bezanson. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2006. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
God's law or Caesar's? The free exercise of religion -- The wall of separation : "No law respecting an establishment of religion -- " -- The Amish conundrum : the conflict between free exercise and non-establishment -- Darwin versus Genesis -- School prayer -- Peyote : God versus Caesar, revisited -- Non-establishment as nondiscrimination -- Equality as a sword : the ghost of Everson.
In tracking the evolution of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clause doctrine through Key Supreme Court decisions on religious freedom, legal scholar Randall P. Bezanson focuses on the court's shift from strict separation of church and state to a position where the government accommodates and even fosters religion. Beginning with samples from the latter half of the nineteenth century, the detailed case studies present new problems and revisit old ones as well: the purported belief of polygamy in the Mormon Church; state support for religious schools; the teaching of evolution and creationism in public schools; Amish claims for exemption from compulsory education laws; comparable claims for Native American religion in relation to drug laws; and rights of free speech and equal access by religious groups in colleges and public schools.
9780252090530 9781283097499
2019717300
GBA635825 bnb
013436710 Uk
Church and state--United States.
Freedom of religion--United States.
Electronic Books.
KF4865 / .H694 2006