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 | #767913 in Books |  2014-02-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x6.56 x.75l,1.07 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||16 of 20 people found the following review helpful.| A Timely and Illuminating Study of American Religious Freedom|By George P. Wood|In America, religious freedom is often named “the first freedom.” One reason reason for this name is religious freedom’s pride of place in the First Amendment. Only after stating, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free e| |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, T

Familiar accounts of religious freedom in the United States often tell a story of visionary founders who broke from the centuries-old patterns of Christendom to establish a political arrangement committed to secular and religiously neutral government. These novel commitments were supposedly embodied in the religion clauses of the First Amendment. But this story is largely a fairytale, Steven Smith says in this incisive examination of a much-mythologized subject. He ma...

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