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The battle over school prayer : how Engel v. Vitale changed America / Bruce J. Dierenfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dierenfield, Bruce J., 1951- author.
- Series:
- Landmark Law Cases and American Society Series
- Landmark law cases and American Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church and state.
- Church and state--United States.
- Prayer in the public schools--Law and legislation.
- Prayer in the public schools.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2007]
- Summary:
- A concise and readable guide to the first-and still most important-case that tackled the constitutionality of prayer in public schools. The decision evoked an enormous outcry from a wide spectrum of society concerned about protecting religious practice in America and curbing an activist Supreme Court that many perceived to be too liberal and out-of-control.
- Contents:
- Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils
- Christ loves all but the hypocrites
- Good fences make good neighbors
- The one-size-fits-all prayer
- The day I stopped believing in God
- Why are these people so afraid of God?
- Almighty God has been given his walking papers
- The most hated woman in America
- My God, what's wrong with that man?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780700634316
- 0700634312
- OCLC:
- 1344419296
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