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Autore: | Ledewitz Bruce <1975-> |
Titolo: | Church, state, and the crisis in American secularism [[electronic resource] /] / Bruce Ledewitz |
Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, Ind., : Indiana University Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
Disciplina: | 342.7308/52 |
Soggetto topico: | Church and state - United States |
Ecclesiastical law - United States | |
Freedom of religion - United States | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-270) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. The establishment clause crisis -- pt. 2. Using government speech and higher law to resolve the establishment clause crisis -- pt. 3. Using the higher law establishment clause to save secularism. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Since 1947, the Supreme Court has promised government neutrality toward religion, but in a nation whose motto is ""In God We Trust"" and which pledges allegiance to ""One Nation under God,"" the public square is anything but neutral -- a paradox not lost on a rapidly secularizing America and a point of contention among those who identify all expressions of religion by government as threats to a free society. Yeshiva student turned secularist, Bruce Ledewitz seeks common ground for believers and nonbeli |
Titolo autorizzato: | Church, state, and the crisis in American secularism |
ISBN: | 0-253-00136-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910456794303321 |
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