Church, state, and the crisis in American secularism / Bruce Ledewitz.

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"Since 1947, the Supreme Court has promised government neutrality toward religion, but in a nation whose motto is 'In God We Trust' and which pledges allegiance to 'One Nation under God,' the public square is anything but neutral--a paradox not lost on a rapidly secularizing America and a point of c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ledewitz, Bruce, 1975-
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:
Church and state > United States.
Ecclesiastical law > United States.
Freedom of religion > United States.
Physical Description:xxv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • What we say: the supreme court's promise of government neutrality toward religion
  • What we do: the failure of the supreme court to redeem the promise of government neutrality
  • Why only the people and not history can resolve the establishment clause crisis
  • Proposals that have failed to resolve the establishment clause crisis
  • The establishment of higher law
  • Using religious symbols to establish higher law
  • Applying higher law in church/state issues
  • The failure of secularism under the new atheism
  • The new new secularism and the higher law
  • Is God a universal symbol?
  • The new politics of higher law secularism
  • Conclusion: perfecting democracy.