Religious Liberty, Volume 1: Overviews and History

by Douglas Laycock

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2010

Overview

One of the most respected and influential scholars of religious liberty in our time, Douglas Laycock has argued many crucial religious liberty cases in the U.S. appellate courts and Supreme Court. His noteworthy scholarly and popular writings are being collected in five comprehensive volumes under the title Religious Liberty.

This first volume gives the big picture of religious liberty in the United States, fitting 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’s clear overviews provide the broad, historical, helpful context often lacking in today’s press.

Key Features

• Includes a comprehensive collection of religious liberty legislation
• Presents material in an accessible way
• Contains one volume of a five volume series

Praise for the Print Edition

Any person who cares about religious liberty in America (and we should all be greatly concerned about its increasingly fragile condition) needs to read Douglas Laycock. Anyone who wants to understand the religious liberty battles being fought in today’s legislatures, courts, culture, and media will be enlightened by reading even one of the articles in this book... These writings are lucid and compelling, completely accessible to every reader—lawyer or not, academic or not, religious or not. Doug has the gift for taking complex ideas and making them elegantly simple but never simplistic.

—Kim Colby, Senior Legal Counsel, Center for Law & Religious Freedom

Product Details

• Title: Religious Liberty, Volume 1: Overviews and History
• Author: Douglas Laycock
• Series: Emory University Studies in Law and Religion
• Volume: 1
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 864
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Freedom of religion › United States; Church and state › United States
• ISBNs: 9780802864659, 0802864651
• Resource ID: LLS:RELIGIOUSLIBERTY1
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:40:45Z

About Douglas Laycock

Douglas Laycock is Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law and professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. In addition to his work as a lawyer, he has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and numerous other publications.