Religion on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and DocumentsFrom colonial times to the present, an insightful examination of how courts have determined the extent to which religion is accommodated in American public life.
This volume chronicles such groundbreaking cases as the 1991 decision ordering blood transfusions for children of Christian Scientists in Norwood Hospital v. Munoz and the infamous case, Engel v. Vitale, that banned prayer in schools and ignited calls for Chief Justice Earl Warren's impeachment. The work addresses such inflammatory contemporary disputes as prayer in schools, allegiance to the flag, and the display of religious symbols on public property, and the impact they have had on American society.
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On one hand, those who argue that the Constitution mandates a “wall of separation” between church and state believe that religion is a personal and family matter only. They would argue that when a schoolteacher or a legislator posts a ...
Some argue that any support of a religious holiday is a violation of the strict separation of church and state required by the Establishment Clause. Others argue that public support is a harmless traditional accommodation of religion.
Augustine argued that spiritual and political authority were distinct. Augustine's duality—the separation of spiritual and political power—remains an underlying tenet in church-state relations to this day. The persecution of Christians ...
Essentially, the Protestants argued that the faithful enjoyed a direct and personal re- lationship with God and accordingly did not need the clergy, the bishops, or even the Pope. Branded as heretics by the church, the re- formers ...
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