{"product_id":"the-supreme-court-and-religion-in-american-life-the-odyssey-of-the-religion-clauses-9780691116969","title":"The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers an exploration of the Supreme Court's approach to religion, offering a close look at various cases. This book traces the history of the way the Court has rendered important decisions involving religious liberty. It offers a fresh analysis of some of the Court's most important decisions in constitutional doctrine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life provides for the general reader a useful road map through the history and case law. The first of the two volumes tells the history rather comprehensively, with a minimum of interpretive overlay. The second tries to understand the story. Hitchcock's work is especially valuable for his extensive coverage of the Court's religion jurisprudence before the deluge--that is, before the 1940s, when the Court deliberately made itself a tribunal of the nation's religious disputes.\"--Russell Hittinger, First Things\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Volume 1 1  CHAPTER O NE  The Kingdom of This World 3  CHAPTER T WO  Belief and Action 18  CHAPTER T HREE  The Phantom Wall 32  CHAPTER F OUR  Clouds of Witnesses 43  CHAPTER F IVE  Expansion 60  CHAPTER S IX  Contraction 90  CHAPTER S EVEN  Religious Education and Public Support 122  C ONCLUSION 149  Notes 163  Bibliography 193  Index of Justices 205  Index of Cases 207  General Index 213","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403731149143,"sku":"9780691116969","price":55.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691116969.jpg?v=1730484381","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-supreme-court-and-religion-in-american-life-the-odyssey-of-the-religion-clauses-9780691116969","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}