Religion on Trial How Supreme Court Trends Threaten Freedom of Conscience in America

by Hammond, Phillip E.; Machacek, David W.; Mazur, Eric Michael

• ISBN13: 9780759106000
• ISBN10: 0759106002
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-23
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

The free exercise of conscience is under attack in the United States. Already the conservative bloc of the Supreme Court is reversing the progress of religious liberty that had been steadily advancing. And this danger will only increase if more conservative judges are nominated to the court. This is the impassioned argument of Religion on Trial. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author Biography

Philip E. Hammond is D. Mackenzie Brown Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara David W. Machacek is resident fellow at the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and visiting assistant professor of public policy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut Eric Michael Mazur is associate professor of religion at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xiii
Introduction	xv
1 Powers, Rights, and Freedoms	1	(18)
2 Religious Liberty and the Freedom of Conscience	19	(26)
3 The Nineteenth-Century Supreme Court and "Republican Protestantism"	45	(24)
4 E Unum Pluribus: Out of One, Many	69	(16)
5 Separation of Church and State Expands	85	(26)
6 Three Case Studies	111	(16)
7 Regression on the Court: Religious Freedom on Trial	127	(24)
Conclusion	151	(2)
Appendix 1	153	(10)
Appendix 2	163	(2)
Bibliography	165	(6)
Index	171	(8)
About the Authors	179