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Designed to be used either as a primary text or with any Law and Religion or First Amendment text, Law and Religion: Cases in Context presents descriptions and discussions of the landmark cases in law and religion and the First Amendment. Cases are selected from the leading religion and First Amendment casebooks, and the authors provide insights into the significance of each while revealing its context and, for many, details about what happened after the case was concluded.

This unique text will intrigue students and engage their interest with —

• accessible prose and interesting illustrations
• cases that involve issues that continue to confound the courts: creation science and evolution; public religious symbols like the cross and the crèche; private religious clothing like the yarmulke and the khimar; tax policy and religion
• engaging characters, such as:
  - Guy Ballard, who told customers that he was chosen by Saint Germain as a divine messenger and possessed supernatural healing
  powers that they could purchase
  - Officer and Doctor Simcha Goldman, who wore a yarmulke to the psychology clinic until an irritated military attorney complained to
  Goldman’s superiors that the yarmulke was not permitted under Air Force regulations
  - Kimberlie Webb, a Philadelphia police officer who lost her efforts to wear a headscarf while in uniform and on duty
  - Ronald Rosenberger, who successfully challenged the University of Virginia’s denial of funding to his evangelical publication, Wide
  Awake
• insights from leading law and religion scholars of diverse professional, religious, geographical, and institutional backgrounds

In her role as editor, Leslie C. Griffin, who holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale University as well as a J.D. from Stanford Law School, has brought together an impressive group of contributors to create Law and Religion: Cases in Context. Be sure to review a copy before your next class!


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Summary of Contents:

Introduction: The Context of the Religion Clauses

Part I. What Is Religion?

Chapter 1. Malnak v. Yogi: Transcendental Mediation and the Definition of Religion

Chapter 2. United States v. Ballard: Government Prohibited from Declaring Religious Truth

Part II. Free Exercise

Chapter 3. Wisconsin v. Yoder: An Anthropologist Shapes a Supreme Court Decision

Chapter 4. Goldman v. Weinberger: Religious Freedom Confronts Military Uniformity

Chapter 5. Bob Jones University v. United States: A Journey Through Scripture and History

Chapter 6. Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith: The Battle for Religious Freedom

Chapter 7. Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah: Protection of Majority Religions’ Privilege at the Nexus of Race, Class, and Ethnicity

Part III. Establishment

Chapter 8. Lemon v. Kurtzman: The Parochial School Crisis and the Establishment Clause

Chapter 9. Lynch v. Donnelly and County of Allegheny v. ACLU: “Christ Is Not a Turkey”

Chapter 10. Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet: A Religious Group’s Quest for Its Own Public School

Chapter 11. Edwards v. Aguillard: Evolution and Creation in the Legal Crucible

Chapter 12. Rosenberger v. Rector of University of Virginia: The Triumph of the Neutrality Principle

Part IV. Accommodation and Tolerance

Chapter 13. Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Amos: Addressing Tensions Between Free Exercise and Establishment

Chapter 14. Freeman v. Department of Highway Safety and Webb v. Philadelphia: Accommodation Tangles in the Laws About Hair

Leslie C. Griffin

Professor Griffin teaches constitutional law, law and religion, torts, and professional responsibility. She holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.