Description:
The purpose of this volume is to provide the reader with a broad range of texts which will aid reflection upon issues relating to law and religion. These texts present a diversity of ideological and scholarly responses to the questions related to the relationship of law and religion in modern societies.
Brief description: Stephen M. Feldman is the Jerry W. Housel/Carl F. Arnold Distinguished Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Wyoming. He is the author of Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State, Free Expression and Democracy in America: A History, and Pack the Court! A Defense of Supreme Court Expansion among other titles.
Review Quotes: "An outstanding collection of materials examining various facets of a truly complicated issue, the proper relationship between religion (and persons with strong religious views) and the wider polity. Even well-read scholars will benefit from reading the volume, though I suspect that the primary beneficiaries of the book will be students whose own intellectual energies will certainly be stimulated by confrontation with the various essays. There is, currently, no book that brings together so many provocative thinkers in a way designed to illuminate the issues presented by the interaction of law and religion, and I would relish using it in a course or seminar on the topic. -Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School, co-editor, Constitutional Stupidities/Constitutional Tragedies (NYU Press, 1998)