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The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom
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English
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2014
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The First Amendment merely preserved the political status quo in matters of religion, says Steven Smith. America's distinctive achievement was a commitment to open contestation between secularists and providentialists. The twentieth-century Supreme Court's secular neutrality repudiated this commitment, with negative consequences visible today.
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Smith Steven D. :
Steven D. Smith is Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and Co-Executive Director of the USD Institute for Law and Religion.
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Smith argues that the goal of American religious liberty has been ill served by the Supreme Court doctrines of the past half century. No mere diatribe, but a careful critique by a tremendously erudite and subtle scholar, The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom is one of the most important books on religious liberty in years.
-- Andrew Koppelman, Northwestern University
-- Andrew Koppelman, Northwestern University
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Contents
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Prologue. The Standard Story and the Revised Version
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1. American Religious Freedom as Christian- Pagan Retrieval
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2. The Accidental First Amendment
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3. The Religion Question and the American Settlement
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4. Dissolution and Denial
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5. The Last Chapter?
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Epilogue. Whither (Religious) Freedom?,
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Notes
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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February 18, 2014
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9780674730137
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240
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