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Article: Free to believe.(Religious Freedom and the Constitution)(Book review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND THE CONSTITUTION by CHRISTOPHER L. EISGRUBER and LAWRENCE G. SAGER Harvard University Press, 352 pages, $28.95
THESE MIGHT SEEM depressing days for our public conversations about religion and public life. The bookstores' shelves are creaking with the sermons of smug eminences purporting to break the spell of the "God delusion" and with banal screeds purporting to expose the dark designs of Christofascists and theocrats. We should be thankful, then, for Religious Freedom and the Constitution. Christopher Eisgruber and Lawrence Sager are serious, accomplished scholars, and they have produced a valuable, provocative book. It will, and should, ...