How Free Can Religion Be?

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University of Illinois Press, 31. maj 2006 - 286 strani

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.

 

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Introduction
1
Separation of Church and State
7
The Time of Testing
49
Stage III The New Awakening
147
Religion in America
273
Suggested Reading
281
Index
285
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Randall P. Bezanson is the David H. Vernon Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Iowa. He is the author of many books, including "How Free Can the Press Be?"

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