TY  - BOOK
AU  - Viteritti,Joseph P.
TI  - The last freedom: religion from the public school to the public square 
SN  - 9781400827848 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BR516 .V58 2007eb
U1  - 322/.10973 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Church and state
KW  - United States
KW  - School choice
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Process
KW  - Political Advocacy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-262) and index; Fear and loathing -- Religion and public life -- Tennessee tales -- Why schools matter -- Politics, education, and religion -- Free exercise, vacated and denied -- Ageless wisdom -- American landscape -- Conscience and compromise
N2  - The presidency of George W. Bush has polarized the church-state debate as never before. The Far Right has been emboldened to use religion to govern, while the Far Left has redoubled its efforts to evict religion from public life entirely. Fewer people on the Right seem to respect the church-state separation, and fewer people on the Left seem to respect religion itself--still less its free exercise in any situation that is not absolutely private. In The Last Freedom, Joseph Viteritti argues that there is a basic tension between religion and democracy because religion often rejects compromise as
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