Religion and the State

James E. Wood is on the faculty of Church State Studies at Baylor University.

Preface Part 1. No Establishment of Religion and the Free Exercise of Religion Roger Williams and the Separation of Church and State --David Little The Emergence of Religious Freedom in the Early Republic --Edwin Scott Gaustad The Original Meaning of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment --Leonard W. Levy The Wall of Separation: The Supreme Court as Uncertain Stonemason --Leo Pfeffer Part 2. The right of Voluntary Association The Problem of a Constitutional Definition of Religion --Milton R. Konvitz Corporate Free Exercise: The Constitutional Rights of Religious Associations --Sharon L. Worthing Part 3. The Right of Religious Dissent New Religions and the First Amendment: "The Law Knows No Heresy" --James E. Wood, Jr. The State and the Christian Day School --James C. Carper and Neal E. Devins Part 4. Government Chaplaincies and Military Conscription Government Chaplaincies and the Separation of Church and State --John M. Swomley, Jr. Conscientious Objection and the Liberal State --Kent Greenawalt Part 5. Religion and Public Education Religion and Schools: The New Political Establishment --Norman Redlich Religion, the State, and the Public University --David Fellman Part 6. Religion and Taxation Tax Exemption and the Free Exercise of Religion --Dean M. Kelley Tax Exemption and the Clergy: On Vos of Poverty and Parsonage Allowances --Ronald B. Flowers Part 7. Religion and Politics Religious Liberty, the Free Churches, and Political Action --Franklin H. Littell Religion and the New Right in the 1980s --Richard V. Pierard Part 8. Religion and World Order Alternatives to Separation of Church and State in Countries Outside the United States --Samuel Krislov The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Religious Intolerance and Discrimination: Historical and Legal Perspectives --Sidney Liskofsky Part 9. Leo Pfeffer An Autobiographical Sketch --Leo Pfeffer The Writings of Leo Pfeffer --Freda Pfeffer Contributors Index