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God on Trial : Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields by Peter. Irons (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100670038512
ISBN-139780670038510
eBay Product ID (ePID)57096437
Product Key Features
Book TitleGod on Trial : Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicConstitutional, History, United States / General, Sociology of Religion
GenreLaw, Religion, Social Science, History
AuthorPeter. Irons
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight19.4 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-052815
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal342.7308/52
SynopsisAn in-depth look at five recent landmark court battles over the separation of church and state Over the past two decades, federal courts have become contentious battlefields in Americas growing religious wars. Since 1989, five momentous court cases have divided communitiesand the nation. Peter Irons, a noted constitutional scholar, lawyer, and author of the bestselling "May It Please the Court", delivers a compelling narrative accompanied by first-person accounts from both sides of the fight in these historic cases. In 1989, residents of San Diego challenged a forty-three-foot-high cross in the center of a public park; 1995 brought a dispute in a Texas town over the recital of prayers at high school football games; in rural Kentucky in 1999, a lawsuit was filed against displaying the Ten Commandments in county courthouses; in 2000, a California parent challenged the words under God in his daughters daily Pledge of Allegiance. And, finally, in 2004, parents in Dover, Pennsylvania, challenged the school boards requirement that intelligent design be taught as an alternative to Darwins theory of evolution. Ironss detailed, in-depth investigation of each of these trials is followed by interviews with the people involved to provide a complete picture of the ongoing wars for the soul of America., Constitutional scholar and bestselling author Irons looks at five recent landmark court battles over the separation of church and state and interviews the people involved to provide a complete picture of the ongoing wars for the soul of America., An in-depth look at five recent landmark court battles over the separation of church and state Over the past two decades, federal courts have become contentious battlefields in America’s growing religious wars. Since 1989, five momentous court cases have divided communities—and the nation. Peter Irons, a noted constitutional scholar, lawyer, and author of the bestselling May It Please the Court, delivers a compelling narrative accompanied by first-person accounts from both sides of the fight in these historic cases. In 1989, residents of San Diego challenged a forty-three-foot-high cross in the center of a public park; 1995 brought a dispute in a Texas town over the recital of prayers at high school football games; in rural Kentucky in 1999, a lawsuit was filed against displaying the Ten Commandments in county courthouses; in 2000, a California parent challenged the words under God” in his daughter’s daily Pledge of Allegiance. And, finally, in 2004, parents in Dover, Pennsylvania, challenged the school board’s requirement that intelligent design” be taught as an alternative to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Irons’s detailed, in-depth investigation of each of these trials is followed by interviews with the people involved to provide a complete picture of the ongoing wars for the soul of America.”
LC Classification NumberKF4783.I76 2007
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