LEADER 03987nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910455367603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15736-1 010 $a9786612157363 010 $a1-4008-2784-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400827848 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788402 035 $a(EBL)457935 035 $a(OCoLC)438701360 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000189387 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11172153 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189387 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10156446 035 $a(PQKB)11645503 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457935 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36310 035 $a(DE-B1597)446680 035 $a(OCoLC)979576850 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400827848 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457935 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312521 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215736 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788402 100 $a20061013d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe last freedom$b[electronic resource] $ereligion from the public school to the public square /$fJoseph P. Viteritti 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (293 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13011-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-262) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Fear and Loathing --$t2. Religion and Public Life --$t3. Tennessee Tales --$t4. Why Schools Matter --$t5. Politics, Education, and Religion --$t6. Free Exercise, Vacated and Denied --$t7. Ageless Wisdom --$t8. American Landscape --$t9. Conscience and Compromise --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe presidency of George W. Bush has polarized the church-state debate as never before. The Far Right has been emboldened to use religion to govern, while the Far Left has redoubled its efforts to evict religion from public life entirely. Fewer people on the Right seem to respect the church-state separation, and fewer people on the Left seem to respect religion itself--still less its free exercise in any situation that is not absolutely private. In The Last Freedom, Joseph Viteritti argues that there is a basic tension between religion and democracy because religion often rejects compromise as a matter of principle while democracy requires compromise to thrive. In this readable, original, and provocative book, Viteritti argues that Americans must guard against debasing politics with either antireligious bigotry or religious zealotry. Drawing on politics, history, and law, he defines a new approach to the church-state question that protects the religious and the secular alike. Challenging much conventional opinion, Viteritti argues that the courts have failed to adequately protect religious minorities, that the rights of the religious are under greater threat than those of the secular, and that democracy exacts greater compromises and sacrifices from the religious than it does from the secular. He takes up a wide range of controversies, including the pledge of allegiance, school prayer, school vouchers, evolution, abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage, and religious displays on public property. A fresh and surprising approach to the church-state question, The Last Freedom is squarely aimed at the wide center of the public that is frustrated with the extremes of both the Left and the Right. 606 $aChurch and state$zUnited States 606 $aSchool choice$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChurch and state 615 0$aSchool choice 676 $a322/.10973 700 $aViteritti$b Joseph P.$f1946-$0870369 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455367603321 996 $aThe last freedom$92473853 997 $aUNINA