Product Description: This book explores the field of Law & Religion in an accessible and balanced way. From today's cutting edge issues such as school vouchers, religious symbolism in the public square, and the continuing debate over the meaning of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment, to the evolution of Church/State Law, the book provides a format that integrates cases, concepts, and theory...read more

Product Description: Many legal theorists and judges agree on one major premise in the field of law and religion: that religion clause jurisprudence is in a state of disarray and has been for some time. In Masters of Illusion, Frank S. Ravitch provocatively contends that both hard originalism (a strict focus on the intent of the Framers) and neutrality are illusory in religion clause jurisprudence, the former because it cannot live up to its promise for either side in the debate and the latter because it is simply impossible in the religion clause context...read more

Product Description: In This Provocative work, Frank S. Ravitch redirects the heated debate over prayer in the public schools. He asserts that current legal discourse, which centers this controversial issue around First Amendment rights, underestimates the ways in which school prayer fosters discrimination against religious minorities and dissenters...read more