Religion & Law

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Important Establishment Clause Cases (Susan Batte)

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American Memory Project: Library of Congress
Archives of Maryland Online
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Case Abstracts on Freedom of Religion Law
Electronic Journals (U.S. Dept. of State. International Information Programs)
The Establishment "Claus": A Selective Guide to the Supreme Court's Christmas Cases, Stephen Young. LLRX.Com
Exploring Constitutional Conflicts: Free Exercise of Religion (University of Missouri Kansas City)
Exploring Constitutional Conflicts: Introduction to the Establishment Clause (University of Missouri Kansas City)
Facets of Religion
First Amendment - Religion and Expression (FindLaw)
Psychology, Religion, and the Law. Jeremiah Gutman
Religion - Diversity Research Page(ASU West Library)
Religious Liberty in Public Life - Establishment Clause
Religious Liberty Research Guide and Bibliography
Religious Movements (University of Virginia)
Salem Witch Trials
Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
Salem Witch Trials, 1692: A Chronology
Salem Witchcraft Trials, 1692
School Prayer Pathfinder (Valencia West Campus)
U.S. Constitution Resource Center
United States Historical Census Data Browser
Virtual Religion Index
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Brief Bibliography

The following is a partial list of the Religion & Law Seminar related materials available in the Thurgood Marshall Law Library and online. For additional sources on this topic, please check the library's Catalog.

The Bible in the Park: Religioius Expression, Public Forums, and Federal District Courts, John C. Blakeman. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2005
UMLL: General Stacks - KF4772.B58 2005

Clergy malpractice in America: Nally v. Grace Community Church of the Valley.
Mark A. Weitz. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c2001.
UMLL: General Stacks KF228.N27 2001

The devil's disciples: makers of the Salem witchcraft trials. Peter Charles
Hoffer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996.
UMLL: General Stacks - KFM2478.8.W5H64 1996

Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692, Richard Godbeer. NY: Oxford University Press, 2005
UMLL: General Stacks - KFC3678.8.W5 G66 2005

First Amendment law in a nutshell. By Jerome A. Barron, C. Thomas Dienes.
3rd ed. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, 2004.
UMLL: Reading Room KF4770.Z9B37 2004

Freedom and the court: civil rights and liberties in the United States. Henry J. Abraham, Barbara A. Perry. 8th ed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c2003.
UMLL: General Stacks KF4749.A73 2003

Government partnerships with faith-based service providers: state of the law. Ira C. Lupu, Robert W. Tuttle. [Albany, NY]: Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy, [2002]
UMLL: General Stacks KF4865.L86 2002

The Impossibility of Religious Freedom, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005
UMLL: General Stacks - KF228.W353 S85 2005

Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of the American Conscience, Richard Francis. NY: Fourth Estate, 2005
UMLL: General Stacks - F67.S525 2005

Law and the Sacred, edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey. Stanford, AC: Stanford University Press, 2007
UMLL: General Stacks - K3280.L395 2007

Law, Darwinism, & public education: the establishment clause and the challenge of intelligent design. Francis J. Beckwith. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, c2003.
UMLL: General Stacks KF4162.B43 2003

Narratives of the witchcraft cases, 1648-1706. Edited by George Lincoln Burr. New York, N.Y.: The Notable Trials Library, Division of Gryphon Editions, c1992.
UMLL: General Stacks - KFM2478.8.W5N37 1992

Public Expression of Religion Act of 2005: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, on H.R. 2679, June 22, 2006. Washington: U.S.G.P.O.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2006
UMLL: Government Documents Stacks - Y4.J89/1:109-118

Religion and American law: an encyclopedia. Editor, Paul Finkelman.
New York: Garland Pub., 2000.
UMLL: General Stacks KF4783.A68 2000

Religion and Law: An Introduction, Peter W. Edge. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006
UMLL: General Stacks - K3280.E32 2006

Religion In Criminal Justice, Monica K. Miller. New York: LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006
UMLL: General Stacks - KF8924.M55 2006

Religion, Secular Beliefs and Human Rights: 25 Years After the 1981 Declaration, by Natan Lerner. Leiden; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006
UMLL: General Stacks - BL65.H78 L48 2006

The Salem witchcraft trials: a legal history. Peter Charles Hoffer.
Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, c1997.
UMLL: General Stacks - KFM2478.8.W5H645 1997

Separation of church and state. Philip Hamburger. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
UMLL: General Stacks BR516.H19 2002

To defend the constitution: religion, conscientious objection, naturalization, and the Supreme Court. Ronald B. Flowers. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2003.
UMLL: General Stacks KF4710.F58 2003

Trumping religion: the new Christian right, the free speech clause, and the courts. Steven P. Brown. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, c2002.
UMLL: General Stacks KF4865.B76 2002

Witnessing Their Faith: Religious Influence on Suypreme Court Justices and Their Opinions, Jay Sekulow. Lanham, MD: Rowman& Littlefield Publishers, 2006
UMLL: General Stacks - KF4783.S45 2006

Wrestling With God: The Courts' Tortuous Treatment of Religion, Patrick M. Garry. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2006
UMLL: General Stacks - KF 4783.G37 2006

The Yoder case: religious freedom, education, and parental rights. Shawn Francis Peters. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c2003.
UMLL: General Stacks KF228.Y63P48 2003

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