Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The impact of the U.S. Supreme Court on American religious freedom
  • The historical background to the First Amendment religion clauses
  • Themes and trends in first amendment interpretation
  • What is religion?
  • The concept of standing
  • Basic concepts and development of free exercise doctrine
  • Rise and fall of free exercise exemptions : from Sherbert to Smith
  • Rise and fall of free exercise exemptions : Smith and beyond
  • Churches and the civil justice system
  • Religious organizations as employers
  • Government funding of religious schools : the rise and application of the "no-aid" principle
  • Government funding of religious schools : the rise of even-handed neutrality and private choice
  • Government aid to higher education
  • Religious organizations and government-funded social services
  • Government funds and religious institutions : a look toward the future
  • Religious expression and public schools : background, released-time programs and the 1960's school-prayer decisions
  • Religious expression in public schools : moments of silence and post-1960s school-prayer cases
  • Religion and the public schools : religion and the curriculum and presidential guidelines on religion and public schools
  • Equal access
  • Religious symbols on government property
  • Government acknowledgements of religion, government chaplains, religion and politics, and religion in the governmental workplace
  • Religious preferences/delegations
  • Legislative accommodation of religious exercise.