Religion & Law

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

By Howard M. Friedman

• Brian M. Lusignan, The Clause Less Taken: Pleasant Grove City v. Summum and the Establishment Clause of the Utah Constitution, (March 3, 2009).
• Frederick Mark Gedicks, Truth and Consequences: Mitt Romney, Proposition 8, and Public Reason, (March 5, 2009).
• Thomas C. Folsom, Evaluating Supernatural Law: An Inquiry into the Health of Nations (the Restatement of the Obvious, Part II), (21 Regent Law Rev. 105 (2008)).
• Susan Drummond, Polygamy's Inscrutable Secular Mischief, (CLPE Research Paper No. 2/2009).

From SmartCILP:

• Mohamed A. Elsanousi, A Growing Economic Power: Muslims in North America and Integration and Contribution to Social Justice, 9 Journal of Law In Society 100-135 (2008).
• Adam Silberlight, Thou Shall Not Overlook Context: A Look At the Ten Commandments Under the Establishment Clause, 18 Widener Law Journal 113-147 (2008).
• Meredith M. Snyder, One Nation Under God: An Examination of the New Religion Law and Its Consequences for Minority Faiths In Post-Communist Romania, 2 Columbia Journal of East European Law 233-271 (2008).
• Taylor J. Turner, Freedom Under Control: Registration of Religious Organizations in Kazakhstan, 2 Columbia Journal of East European Law 272-311 (2008).
• Religious Jurisprudence Essay Series. Essays by John W. Welch and Thomas C. Folsom. 21 Regent University Law Review 79-180 (2008-2009).

New Books:

• Jay Wexler, Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars, (Beacon Press, June 2009), author interview at Religion Dispatches.
• Bruce Ledewitz, Hallowed Secularism: Theory, Belief, Practice, (Macmillan, March 2009).

Full post as published by Religion Clause on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).