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Modern church-state doctrine

Kenneth L. Marcus (Brandeis Center): Three Conceptions of Religious Freedom. Michael Stokes Paulsen (St. Thomas): The Priority of God (A Theory of Religious Liberty). David R. Upham (Dallas): Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Natural Law, and the Pope’s Extraordinary — But Undeserved — Praise of the American Republic. Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami): Expanding the Bob Jones Compromise. An interview with TM Luhrmann, author of When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God. A review of The Bible, the School, and the Constitution: The Clash that Shaped Modern Church-State Doctrine by Steven Green. Peter Steinfels reviews Bad Religion by Ross Douthat. Ed Kilgore on the widening political divide between Catholicism and mainline Protestantism. Daniel Cox on American attitudes toward religious minorities. From Businessweek, Caroline Winter on how the Mormons make money. The Mormon excommunication of Fawn Brodie: James Reston Jr. on why banishing the biographer reverberates 65 years later. A review of The Myth of American Religious Freedom by David Sehat.