No Establishment of Religion: America's Original Contribution To Religious Liberty - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199860394 ISBN 13: 9780199860395

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

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An excellent guide for anyone interested in exploring the constitutional aspects of American church history. (Church History)

Readers of the Gunn and Witte collection will get superb, vigorous essays outlining two and a half centuries of interactions between American governments and denominations, religious movements, and individual believers . The essays are so wide-ranging and generally well done that the collection reflects the best scholarship on a subject still roiling modern American life and politics. (Journal of Religion)

The editors of this sterling collection recruited an all-star lineup of contributors... Historians, legal scholars, political scientists, jurists, legislators, and an interested general public should all benefit from this book... superb. (Renewing Minds)

As the outstanding and wide-ranging essays in this volume illustrate, Americans have often disagreed about the meaning and application of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, and have sometimes confused it with an anti-religious or secularizing policy of marginalizing or privatizing religion. The project of securing the human right to religious liberty by disentangling political and religious authority is ongoing and-as national and world events remind us every day-pressing. This book offers both a helpful introduction to and an insightful debate about the history and future of this project. (Richard W. Garnett, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Notre Dame Law School)

About the Author:

T. Jeremy Gunn is Professor in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco and Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University; John Witte, Jr. is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199860394
• ISBN 13: 9780199860395
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Gunn T. Jeremy, Witte John