Religious Freedom: Rights and Liberties under the Law

(Hardback)

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This volume provides in a single source a thorough grounding in the origin, development, and current controversies surrounding the free practice of religion. * Four chapters discuss the development of religious freedom from its roots in tribal societies through key court decisions of the 1990s * A chronology outlines significant events and court decisions from 1776 to 2001, and a table lists all of the pertinent cases alphabetically

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"A useful review of religious freedom for general readers and lower-division undergraduates." - Choice "[T]houghtful and well-written account ... explores the origins and traces the development of America's religious liberty, the underlying principle of the policy of church and state separation ... Given the timeliness of this subject, as well as the ongoing need to be ever-vigilant about matters of church and state, this work would be a valuable addition to high school and college libraries." - American Reference Books Annual

Author Bio

Melvin I. Urofsky is director of the doctoral program in public policy and professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.