Religious Liberty Volumes 1 & 2

by Douglas Laycock

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2010–2011

Overview

One of the most respected and influential scholars of religious liberty in our time, Douglas Laycock has argued many crucial religious liberty cases in the U.S. appellate courts and Supreme Court. His noteworthy scholarly and popular writings are being collected in five comprehensive volumes under the title Religious Liberty.

Key Features

• Includes a comprehensive collection of religious liberty legislation
• Presents material in an accessible way
• Contains two volumes of a five volume series

Praise for the Print Edition

Any person who cares about religious liberty in America (and we should all be greatly concerned about its increasingly fragile condition) needs to read Douglas Laycock. Anyone who wants to understand the religious liberty battles being fought in today’s legislatures, courts, culture, and media will be enlightened by reading even one of the articles in this book... These writings are lucid and compelling, completely accessible to every reader—lawyer or not, academic or not, religious or not. Doug has the gift for taking complex ideas and making them elegantly simple but never simplistic.

—Kim Colby, Senior Legal Counsel, Center for Law & Religious Freedom

Product Details

• Title: Religious Liberty Volumes 1 & 2
• Author: Douglas Laycock
• Series: Religious Liberty
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Volumes: 2
• Pages: 1,759
• Resource Type: Collected Works
• Topic: Politics & Government

Religious Liberty, Volume 1: Overviews and History

• Author: Douglas Laycock
• Series: Religious Liberty
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 2010
• Pages: 888

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

This first volume gives the big picture of religious liberty in the United States, fitting a vast range of disparate disputes into a coherent pattern—from public school prayers to private school vouchers to regulation of churches and believers. Laycock’s clear overviews provide the broad, historical, helpful context often lacking in today’s press.

The church-state field is blessed with serious scholars, persuasive advocates, dynamic teachers, astute political strategists, and public commentators. Douglas Laycock is one of a very few who are all of these. I welcome this multivolume collection of his always insightful and lucid writings—from scholarly law review articles to USA Today op-ed pieces. Even those who may disagree with Laycock’s interpretation and application of the First Amendment’s religion clauses will be hard pressed to gainsay these sentiments.

—J. Brent Walker, Executive Director, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty

Religious Liberty, Volume 2: The Free Exercise Clause

• Author: Douglas Laycock
• Series: Religious Liberty
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 871

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

This second volume, The Free Exercise Clause, includes articles, amicus briefs, and court documents relating to regulatory exemptions under the Constitution, the right to church autonomy, and the rights of non-mainstream religions. Dealing with religious schools and colleges, sexual abuse cases, the rights of Hare Krishnas and Scientologists, the landmark decision Employment Division v. Smith, and more, this will be a valuable reference for churches, schools, and other religious organizations as they exercise their constitutionally protected freedom.

A must for academic and law-school libraries... A treasure trove of information for those who teach or practice church-state law.

—Voice of Reason

About Douglas Laycock

Douglas Laycock is Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law and professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. In addition to his work as a lawyer, he has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and numerous other publications.