Civil Rights Law, General Christianity, Church & State, Cases - Legal Reference, Constitutional Law
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Overview
This text is well-suited to courses in Religious Liberty or Religion and the Constitution. Its comprehensive yet concise volume brings a refreshing new perspective to the study of topics of enduring interest.
Features include:
- exceptional authorship Professors McConnell, Garvey, and Berg are outstanding scholars in their field
- emphasis on broad, recurring themes to place current debates in context, for example: free exercise of religion in the face of government regulation, government financial assistance to religious institutions, and the role of religion in government institutions, such as schools
- notes and questions that connect constitutional and religious history with today's constitutional issues
- focus on the relationship between free exercise and establishment clauses
- lightly-edited cases that promote deep analysis
The text is divided into six main parts:
- Introduction
- History
- Religion in the Regulatory State
- The Power of the Purse
- Religion and the Government's Influence Over Culture
- What Is Religion
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A law school casebook that emphasizes the interrelatedness of the "free exercise of religion" and the "nonestablishment of religion" clauses of the United States Constitution. Both components are examined in the three areas where government interacts with religion: the regulation of religious activity, the funding of religious activity, and the treatment of religion in government's culture shaping activities such as public schools. Relevant Supreme Court cases are presented along with explanatory notes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
January 1, 2011
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Pages
845
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780735509832