Wrestling with God: The Courts' Tortuous Treatment of Religion. By Patrick M. Garry. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 2006. 230 pp. $49.95 cloth; $22.95 paper.

This is another angry book. Like Patrick Garry, many scholars of church and state advocate particular interpretive positions; they write briefs in favor of their side, and rarely give equal time to opposing considerations. The literature in the field predictably has become polarized and highly political, frequently citing only those on one side of a pointed and sometimes vitriolic debate. Wrestling with God is no exception. Garry's avowed goal is to persuade the reader (and by extension the federal ...