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God and the Founders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

God and the Founders

God and the Founders explains the church-state political philosophies of James Madison, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 679

Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court

Throughout American history, legal battles concerning the First Amendment’s protection of religious liberty have been among the most contentious issue of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution. Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and Documents represents the most authoritative and up-to-date overview of the landmark cases that have defined religious freedom in America. Noted religious liberty expert Vincent Philip Munoz (Notre Dame) provides carefully edited excerpts from over fifty of the most important Supreme Court religious liberty cases. In addition, Munoz’s substantive introduction offers an overview on the constitutional history of religious liberty in America. Introductory headnotes to each case provides the constitutional and historical context. Religious Liberty and the American Constitution is an indispensable resource for anyone interested matters of religious freedom from the Republic’s earliest days to current debates.

Religious Liberty and the American Founding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Religious Liberty and the American Founding

  • Categories: Law

"The Founders understood religious liberty to be an inalienable natural right. Vincent Phillip Muñoz explains what this means for church-state constitutional law, uncovering what we can and cannot determine about the original meanings of the First Amendment's Religion Clauses and constructing a natural rights jurisprudence of religious liberty."--

The Cambridge Companion to the First Amendment and Religious Liberty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 477

The Cambridge Companion to the First Amendment and Religious Liberty

  • Categories: Law

Offers historical, philosophical, legal, and political insights into the First Amendment, religious liberty, and church-state relations.

Religious Freedom in America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Religious Freedom in America

  • Categories: Law

This truly interdisciplinary volume brings together respected historians, social scientists, legal scholars, and advocates. As their contributions attest, understanding religious freedom demands taking multiple perspectives. The historians guide us through the contested legacy of religious freedom, from the nation’s founding and the rise of public education, to the subsequent waves of immigration that added successive layers of diversity to American society.

Journeys to the Spiritual Lands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Journeys to the Spiritual Lands

Yet, despite all of this, their beliefs are strictly based on a fundamentalist Christianity in which every action is justified by the Bible.".

Secularism and Freedom of Conscience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 153

Secularism and Freedom of Conscience

Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical and urgent as income inequalities or the paths to sustainable development. In this wide-ranging analysis, Jocelyn Maclure and Charles Taylor provide a clearly reasoned, articulate account of the two main principles of secularism—equal respect, and freedom of conscience—and its two operative modes—separation of Church (or mosque or temple) and State, and State neutrality vis-à-vis religions. But more crucially, they make the powerful argument that in our ever more religiously diverse, politically interconnected world, secularism, properly understood, may offer the only path to religious and philosophical freedom. Secularism and Fr...

Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 126

Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy

Inspired by Machiavelli, modern philosophers held that the tension between the goals of biblical piety and the goals of political life needed to be resolved in favor of the political, and they attempted to recast and delimit traditional Christian teaching to serve and stabilize political life accordingly. This volume examines the arguments of those thinkers who worked to remake Christianity into a civil religion in the early modern and modern periods. Beginning with Machiavelli and continuing through to Alexis de Tocqueville, the essays in this collection explain in detail the ways in which these philosophers used religious and secular writing to build a civil religion in the West. Early cha...

The Political Theory of the American Founding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 431

The Political Theory of the American Founding

This book provides a complete overview of the Founders' natural rights theory and its policy implications.

Church, State, and Original Intent
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383

Church, State, and Original Intent

  • Categories: Law

This provocative book shows how the justices of the United States Supreme Court have used constitutional history, portraying the Framers' actions in a light favoring their own views about how church and state should be separated. Drakeman examines church-state constitutional controversies from the Founding Era to the present, arguing that the Framers originally intended the establishment clause only as a prohibition against a single national church.