Subjects • Christianity

About the Book

Ronald B. Flowers
Melissa Rogers
Steven K. Green

ISBN: 1-60258-160-6 / 978-1-60258-160-9
Price: $69.95
Discount: Trade
Publication Date: 2008
Specs: Paper Back / 1500 pages / Notes / Works Cited / Index
Benevolent Neutrality (5th edition, 1996), a longstanding favorite for professors of church-and-state relationships in the U.S., has been revised and updated by one original author, Robert B. Flowers, and two new ones, Melissa Rogers and Steven K. Green. Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court contains a new introduction clearly explaining specific ways the Court delineates the idea of religious freedom on a case-by-case basis. As clearly written as its predecessor, and as appropriate for the classroom, this new book contains explanations of more recent cases, decided by a contemporary Supreme Court. It is clear, relevant, and an essential text for the twenty-first century.

Available November 2008

Reviews:

"These volumes will serve serious students and caring citizens well in their quest for understanding of the Supreme Court of the United States has understood and applied the First Freedom-our precious heritage of religious liberty. The explanatory material in each chapter sets the stage for the order of the cases. But the heart of the book is the decisions. The cases speak for themselves about the work of the Supreme Court throughout its history."

-Mark Chopko, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University and former General Counsel of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

"This is a masterful reworking of the early Miller & Flowers masterpiece on American religious liberty. This new edition is striking in its clever organization of the main themes, its judicious editing of the leading cases, and its probing analysis of the enduring teachings of the First Amendment. At once an authoritative handbook and self-contained textbook, this volume will find a wide reading among scholars and students, advocates and judges of religious liberty in the United States and abroad."

-John Witte, Jr., Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Emory Law School, Director, Center for the Study of Law and Religion

"Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court will become the standard classroom text for instruction in religion clause jurisprudence. It masterfully blends texts of Supreme Court decisions, scholarly commentary, helpful notes and discussion questions, and an outstanding bibliography. This volume has no equal as an instructional tool on church-state relations and religious freedom in the United States and could readily be used in undergraduate, graduate and law school classrooms."

-Derek H. Davis, Dean College of Humanities and Dean of the Graduate School, University of Mary-Hardin Baylor

"It may be too late. Since 2000 the White House chips away at the First Amendment with signing statements, secret directives, and executive orders, virtually destroying the historic understanding of religious freedom. Never have we needed Flowers, Green, and Rogers more, unpacking, explaining interpreting and parsing the High Court's decisions on religion."

-James M. Dunn, Professor of Christianity and Public Policy, Wake Forest University Divinity School