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The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics, and the First Amendment
Author(s): Dennis J. Goldford (author) (Author)
- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- Publication Date: 30 Mar. 2012
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 270 pages
- ISBN-10: 1602584192
- ISBN-13: 9781602584198
Book Description
In a time when the question of American religious identity underlies much political conversation that fills the public square, Dennis Goldford directs his readers to consider the First Amendment. The founding fathers’ words, “”Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,”” are the constitutional means of ensuring, however imperfectly, the American freedom to stand for something sacred. In his analysis, Goldford ably demonstrates that the very nature of these religion clauses establishes protection not for religion but for religious freedom. The Constitution of Religious Freedom argues that religious identity inheres not in the nation, but in the individual citizen.
