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Religion on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents

Religion on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents

Hardcover

Series: On Trial

Religion General General Law

ISBN10: 1851094911
ISBN13: 9781851094912
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: Dec 2 2003
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

From colonial times to the present, an insightful examination of how courts have determined the extent to which religion is accommodated in American public life.

From the internationally renowned Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which pitted a public school teacher arrested for teaching evolution against the state of Tennessee, Religion on Trial chronicles key court cases that have shaped the tumultuous relationship between church and state throughout U.S. history.

This volume chronicles such groundbreaking cases as the 1991 decision ordering blood transfusions for children of Christian Scientists in Norwood Hospital v. Munoz and the infamous case, Engel v. Vitale, that banned prayer in schools and ignited calls for Chief Justice Earl Warren's impeachment. The work addresses such inflammatory contemporary disputes as prayer in schools, allegiance to the flag, and the display of religious symbols on public property, and the impact they have had on American society.

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