Religious Freedom: Rights and Liberties Under the Law

by Melvin I. Urofsky

Book Overview

This volume provides in a single source a thorough grounding in the origin, development, and current controversies surrounding the free practice of religion.

The first boatloads of European settlers did not come to America advocating religious tolerance. They came seeking the freedom to practice their own religion. Other sects, they believed, were wrong at best and, at worst, not to be tolerated.

The question of what constitutes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576073122
• ISBN13: 9781576073124
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher