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050 00 $aBR516$b.V58 2007
100 1 $aViteritti, Joseph P.,$d1946-
245 14 $aThe last freedom :$breligion from the public school to the public square /$cJoseph P. Viteritti.
260 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2007.
300 $axvi, 273 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 1 $a"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 a matter of principle while democracy requires compromise to thrive. In this book, Viteritti argues that Americans must guard against debasing politics with either antireligious bigotry or religious zealotry. Drawing on politics, history, and law, he defines a new approach to the church-state question that protects the religious and the secular alike."--BOOK JACKET.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-262) and index.
650 0 $aChurch and state$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSchool choice$zUnited States.
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