Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring

Abstract: The government's efforts to form a "comprehensive administrative state" [socialist state] has placed it on a collision course with religion. This book explores case law relating to the separation of church and state and demonstrates the tendency for the government to favor irreligious secularism rather than true neutrality.

Keywords: book review, politics, religion, constitution, first amendment, separation of church and state, religious freedom, freedom of religion.

Title: Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring Author: Steven V. Monsma Foreword: Michael Novak Publisher: Baker Books Date Published: January 1995 ISBN: 0801020476 LOCN: KF4865.M66 1995 Dewey: 342.73/0852347.302852 20 Pages: 277 Bibliography: 92 entries Footnotes: 578 entries

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CONTENTS

Foreword by Michael Novak

Preface

Chapter 1: Church and State in U.S. Society

Chapter 2: The Present: Church-State Theory and Practice

Chapter 3: The Past as Prologue: The Development of Church-State Theory and Practice

Chapter 4: Back to Basics: The Pluralist Understanding of Society

Chapter 5: Positive Neutrality: Religious Freedom in a Free Society

Chapter 6: Positive Neutrality in the Political Arena

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DATA

Author:        Monsma, Stephen V., 1936-
Title:         Positive neutrality : letting religious freedom
                  ring / Stephen V. Monsma ; foreword by Michael Novak.
Published:     Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Books, 1995.
Description:   xiv, 277 p. ; 23 cm.
LC Call No.:   KF4865.M66 1995
Dewey No.:     342.73/0852347.302852 20
ISBN:          0801020476 (pbk.)
Notes:         Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood
                  Press, 1993, in series: Contributions in legal studies.
               Includes bibliographical references (p.
                  [269]-272) and index.
Subjects:      Church and state -- United States.
               Freedom of religion -- United States.
Control No.:   95010811 

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