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1) American crusade: how the Supreme Court is weaponizing religious freedom

Author

Seidel, Andrew L

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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"Seidel examines some of the key Supreme Court cases of the last thirty years--including Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (a bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple), Trump v. Hawaii (the anti-Muslim travel ban case), American Legion v. American Humanist Association (related to a group maintaining a 40-foot Christian cross on government-owned land), and Tandon v. Newsom (a Santa Clara Bible group exempted...

2) Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the founders

Author

Spellberg, Denise A

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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"In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom-- a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur'an. This marked only the beginning of his lifelong interest in Islam, and he would go on to acquire numerous books on Middle Eastern languages, history,...

3) Sacred liberty: America's long, bloody, and ongoing struggle for religious freedom

Author

Waldman, Steven

Pub. Date

[2019]

Physical Description

ix, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

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"Sacred Liberty offers a dramatic, sweeping survey of how America built a unique model of religious freedom, perhaps the nation's "greatest invention." Steven Waldman, the bestselling author of Founding Faith, shows how early ideas about religious liberty were tested and refined amidst the brutal persecution of Catholics, Baptists, Mormons, Quakers, African slaves, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses. American leaders drove religious...

4) Separation of church and state: historical fact and current fiction

Author

Cord, Robert L

Pub. Date

[1982]

Physical Description

xv, 307 pages ; 23 cm

Language

English

5) Constitutional debates on freedom of religion: a documentary history

Series

Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues

Pub. Date

1999.

Physical Description

xxi, 335 pages ; 25 cm

Language

English

6) Deep conviction: true stories of ordinary Americans fighting for the freedom to live their beliefs

Author

Collis, Steven T

Pub. Date

[2019]

Physical Description

vi, 378 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

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"Deep conviction features four ordinary Americans--a Catholic, an atheist, a Native American, and a Christian baker--who put their reputations and livelihoods at risk as they fought to protect their first amendment right to live their personal beliefs."--Provided by the publisher.

7) The lustre of our country: the American experience of religious freedom

Author

Noonan, John T

Pub. Date

[1998]

Physical Description

436 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Language

English

8) Religious freedom: rights and liberties under the law

Author

Urofsky, Melvin I

Series

America's freedoms

Pub. Date

[2002]

Physical Description

xxiii, 411 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

9) The myth of American religious freedom

Author

Sehat, David

Pub. Date

2011.

Physical Description

viii, 356 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

10) Should the children pray?: a historical, judicial, and political examination of public school prayer

Author

Fenwick, Lynda Beck

Pub. Date

[1989]

Physical Description

249 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

11) Expressing the sense of Congress that the George Washington letter to Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, which is on display at the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish...: report (to accompany H. Con. Res. 62)

Author

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary

Series

Report / 107th Congress 1st session House of Representatives volume 107-143

Pub. Date

2001.

Physical Description

19 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

12) Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: contributions to original intent

Author

Davis, Derek

Series

Religion in America

Pub. Date

2000.

Physical Description

xiv, 309 pages ; 25 cm

Language

English

13) The Mormon question: polygamy and constitutional conflict in nineteenth-century America

Author

Gordon, Sarah Barringer

Series

Studies in legal history

Pub. Date

[2002]

Physical Description

xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

14) Judging Jehovah's Witnesses: religious persecution and the dawn of the rights revolution

Author

Peters, Shawn Francis

Pub. Date

[2000]

Physical Description

x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

15) A nation dedicated to religious liberty: the constitutional heritage of the religion clauses

Author

Adams, Arlin M

Pub. Date

[1990]

Physical Description

xiv, 172 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

16) Religious freedom after the sexual revolution: a Catholic guide

Author

Alvaré, Helen M

Pub. Date

[2022]

Physical Description

248 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

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"Drawing upon Scripture, tradition, history, theology and empirical evidence, Helen Alvaré frames a thorough response to current US laws' attempts to impose the moral norms of the sexual revolution upon Catholic institutions. Taking full account of the relevant objections to the Catholic Church's teachings as they apply in institutions such as Catholic schools, hospitals, and social services, it argues for the "ecclesial nature" of these organizations....