Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States.
The volume argues that religious freedom is produced within competing visions of governance in a self-governing nation.
But religious freedom in America is, in fact, impossible. So argues this timely and iconoclastic work by law and religion scholar Winnifred Sullivan. Sullivan uses as the backdrop for the book the trial of Warner vs.
Lippmann here fully embraced what David Hollinger has called the “intellectual gospel.” See David A. Hollinger, “Justification by Verification: The Scientific Challenge to the Moral Authority of Christianity in Modern America,” in ...
Religion has become a charged token in a politics of division.
Based on a symposium held in Istanbul, Turkey.
This survey describes and rates countries using criteria based on international law; it parallels the surveys produced for Freedom in the World and Freedom of the Press.
This volume presents a timely analysis of some of the current controversies relating to freedom for religion and freedom from religion that have dominated headlines worldwide.
I learned an enormous amount from this fascinating book."--Christian Reus-Smit, author of Individual Rights and the Making of the International System "This is a compelling, stimulating, and original book.
In Getting over Equality, Steven D. Smith, one of the most important voices now writing about religious liberty, provocatively contends that we must get over our presumption mistakenly believed to be rooted in the Constitution that all ...