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The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America
Sarah Barringer Gordon
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Description for The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America
Hardback.
A new constitutional world burst into American life in the mid-twentieth century. For the first time, the national constitution's religion clauses were extended by the United States Supreme Court to all state and local governments. As energized religious individuals and groups probed the new boundaries between religion and government and claimed their sacred rights in court, a complex and evolving landscape of religion and law emerged.
Sarah Gordon tells the stories of passionate believers who turned to the law and the courts to facilitate a dazzling diversity of spiritual practice. Legal decisions revealed the exquisite difficulty of gauging where ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674046542
SKU
V9780674046542
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About Sarah Barringer Gordon
Sarah Barringer Gordon is Arlin M. Adams Professor of Law and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania.
Reviews for The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America
A masterful study…insightful and provocative, well-written and entertaining. I know of no other book like it.
Mark Silk, author of One Nation, Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics This dazzling book explores the Jehovah's Witnesses, Black Muslims, white evangelical Protestant women, and others who, beginning in the 1940s, made law crucial to religious life. It is ... Read more
Mark Silk, author of One Nation, Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics This dazzling book explores the Jehovah's Witnesses, Black Muslims, white evangelical Protestant women, and others who, beginning in the 1940s, made law crucial to religious life. It is ... Read more