Religious conscience, the state, and the law : historical contexts and contemporary significance / John McLaren and Harold Coward, editors.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:SUNY series in religious studies.
Other Authors: McLaren, John, 1940-
Coward, Harold G.
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [1999], ©1999.
Series:SUNY series in religious studies.
Subjects:
Freedom of religion > United States.
Freedom of religion > Canada.
Physical Description:vii, 247 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Harold Coward and John McLaren
  • Willing to suffer : law and religious conscience in seventeenth-century England / Justin A.I. Champion
  • Excommunicating the governor's wife : religious dissent in the Puritan colonies before the era of rights consciousness / Cornelia Hughes Dayton
  • Enlightenment and conscience / Martin Fitzpatrick
  • Speech for the soul : religion, conscience, and free speech in antebellum America / Elizabeth B. Clark
  • Jewish nongovernmental organizations, religious human rights, and public advocacy in the twentieth century / Irwin Cotler
  • Communal property and freedom of religion : Lakeside Colony of Hutterian Brethren v. Hofer / Alvin Esau
  • The Doukhobor belief in individual faith and conscience and the demands of the secular state / John McLaren
  • The law and reconstituted Christianity : the case of the Mormons / Carol Weisbrod
  • Anti-semitism and the growth of rights consciousness in Western Europe and North America / Phyllis M. Senese
  • The struggle to preserve aboriginal spiritual teaching and practices / James [Sakeji] Youngblood Henderson
  • Expansion and constriction of religion : the paradox of the Indian secular state / Robert D. Baird
  • Religion and public education in Canada after the charter / Elizabeth J. Shilton
  • The cultural and religious heritage : perspectives on the Muslim experience / Azim A. Naji.