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Book Announcement: Religion & the Constitution by Greenawalt

By Lawrence Solum

Kent Greenawalt's Religion and the Constitution is now available in paperback.  Here is the announcement:

Religion and the Constitution
Volume I: Free Exercise and Fairness
Kent Greenawalt
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006

To read the entire book description or the introduction, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8321.html

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Religion and the Constitution presents a new framework for addressing . . . controversial questions that involve competing demands of fairness, liberty, and constitutional validity.

"Kent Greenawalt is a masterful guide to the range of issues and varied sources concerning free exercise, and teachers and scholars of constitution law will find his book an invaluable resource on free exercise questions."--L. Joseph Hebert, Law and Politics Book Review
Paper | $27.95 / £19.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-14113-8
Cloth | $39.50 / £30.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-12582-4
e-Book | $27.95 | ISBN: 978-1-4008-2752-7

And volume two:

Religion and the Constitution
Volume 2: Establishment and Fairness
Kent Greenawalt

To read the entire book description or the introduction, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8679.html

In this second of two major volumes on the intersection of constitutional and religious issues in the United States, Kent Greenawalt focuses on the Constitution's Establishment Clause, which forbids government from favoring one religion over another, or religion over secularism. The author begins with a history of the clause, its underlying principles, and the Supreme Court's main decisions on establishment, and proceeds to consider specific controversies.

"tudents, law clerks, scholars, and interested citizens seeking a fair-minded dissection of the complexities of any given issue can easily dip into the two volumes and find much of value. In particular, Greenawalt's chapter on 'Establishment Clause Tests and Standards' provides as succinct an introduction to the twists of case law as currently available."--Aziz Huq, New York Law Journal
Paper | $27.95 / £19.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-14114-5
Cloth | $45.00 / £30.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-12583-1
e-Book | $27.95 | ISBN: 978-1-4008-2823-4

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on August 05, 2009 (boomark / email).