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Everson Revisited explores the consequences and future implications of Everson v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case that permitted the use of tax revenue to transport students to parochial schools while simultaneously calling for an impenetrable "wall of separation" between religion and public schools.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Everson Case in the Context of New Jersey Politics
Chapter 2 Everson and the Command of History: The Supreme Court, Lessons in History, and the Church-State in Americza
Chapter 3 The New Common School: The Evangelical Response to Everson
Chapter 4 Catholic Jurisprudence on Education
Chapter 5 Everson and Its Progeny: Separation and Nondiscimination in Tension
Chapter 6 The Wrong Road Taken
Chapter 7 Everson and Moments of Silence in Public Schools: Constitutional and Ethical Considerations
Chapter 8 A Skeptical Postmodern Defense of Multiestablishment: The Case for Government Aid to Religious Schools in a Multicultural Age
Chapter 9 The Religious Equality Amendment and Voluntary School Prayer
Chapter 10 Litigating Everson after Everson
Chapter 11 General Index
Chapter 12 Case Index

Product details

Published Jun 19 1997
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 256
ISBN 9780847686513
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Religious Forces in the Modern Political World
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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