Overviews and History (#01 in Religious Liberty Series)

*Religious Liberty* comprehensively collects the scholarship, advocacy, and explanatory writings of leading scholar and lawyer Douglas Laycock. This first volume gives the big picture of religious liberty in the United States from the Reformation to the American founding to Protestant-Catholic conflict in the nineteenth century to recent conflict between evangelicals and secularists and the most recent cases in the Supreme Court  
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The Collected Works on Religious Liberty comprehensively collects the scholarship, advocacy, and explanatory writings of leading scholar and lawyer Douglas Laycock, illuminating every major religious liberty issue from both theoretical and practical perspectives. / This first volume gives the big picture of religious liberty in the United States. It fits a vast range of disparate disputes into a coherent pattern, from public school prayers to private school vouchers to regulation of churches and believers. Laycock clearly and carefully explains what the law is and argues for what the law should be. He also reviews the history of Western religious liberty from the American founding to Protestant-Catholic conflict in the nineteenth century, using this history to cast light on the meaning of our constitutional guarantees. / Collected Works on Religious Liberty is unique in the depth and range of its coverage. Laycock helpfully includes both scholarly articles and key legal documents, and unlike many legal scholars, explains them clearly and succinctly. All the while, he maintains a centrist perspective, presenting all sides -- believers and nonbelievers alike -- fairly.Read less