Defending American Religious Neutrality

by Andrew Koppelman

Book Overview

Although it is often charged with hostility toward religion, First Amendment doctrine in fact treats religion as a distinctive human good. It insists, however, that this good be understood abstractly, without the state taking sides on any theological question. Here, a leading scholar of constitutional law explains the logic of this uniquely American form of neutrality--more religion-centered than liberal theorists propose, and less overtly theistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674066464
• ISBN13: 9780674066465
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"