Religious freedom is under sustained pressure today around the world. In some places, it is fair to say that religious freedom is under siege. This book is a response to that sobering fact.
Religious Freedom
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.
This book seeks to add context to the contemporary debates regarding religious freedom, specifically RFRA, and related laws. Religious freedom laws may not be as bad as some want you to think.
In Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Legacy, America’s Creed, the historian and lawyer John Ragosta offers a vigorous defense of Jefferson’s advocacy for a strict separation of church and state.
Religious Freedom: Did Vatican II Contradict Traditional Catholic Doctrine? : a Debate
Provides detailed information on professional and personal responsibilities of the lawyer. Also provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point study. Part of the University Casebook Series®, it includes selected cases...
To understand the most contentious issues around religious liberty, this volume provides influential philosophical ideas from the U.S.’s founding to the present day and key U.S. Supreme Court judgements to ask how the two twin pillars of ...
Susan Palmer and Stuart Wright in their 2016 book Storming Zion discuss raids against groups labeled as “cults” in various countries, invariably carried out by a disproportionate number of agents, mostly for the benefit of the invited ...
Ultimately revealing that the great sage demanded a firm separation of church and state but never sought a wholly secular public square, Ragosta provides a new perspective on Jefferson, the First Amendment, and religious liberty within the ...
This book fills the gap in the scholarship on religious freedom by focusing on sociological dimensions and research methods.
This volume provides in a single source a thorough grounding in the origin, development, and current controversies surrounding the free practice of religion.