A new issue of Church and State is out. Richard W. Garnett (Notre Dame): The Political (and Other) Safeguards of Religious Freedom. Jay Wexler (BU): Government Disapproval of Religion. Josh D. DeSantis (IUP): Watering America’s Religious Roots: The Case for Religious Pluralism in American Public Schools. Christopher Boerl (London): Religion, Media and Culture: Religion and the American Political Sphere. James L. Guth (Furman) and Lyman A. Kellstedt (Wheaton): Religious Groups as a Force in Party Politics. Bill Keller on asking candidates tougher questions about faith — because it’s not just between them and their god. An interview with Brian T. Kaylor, author of Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics. A historian's thoughts on recent American religious history resonate with the campaign season; Scott McLemee looks around the paywall. John Harmon McElroy on understanding the First Amendment’s religion clauses. After 50 years, Roy Torcaso’s Supreme Court win still affirms religious liberty for all. A review of The Agnostic Age: Law, Religion, and the Constitution by Paul Horwitz. A review of Keeping Faith with the Constitution by Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan, by Christopher H. Schroeder. The first chapter from American Religion: Contemporary Trends by Mark Chaves. The Odd Couple: The overwhelmingly white Church of Scientology and the black supremacist Nation of Islam share more than just spaceships. Money cometh to me now: If you give money to Dr. Leroy Thompson, will your own bank account grow? An excerpt from Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country in Between by Jeff Sharlet. An interview with Randall J. Stephens and Karl W. Giberson, authors of The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age. More on Frank Schaeffer's Sex, Mom, and God. A review of Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire by Ian Tyrrell (and more).
