The University of North Carolina Press

Religious Studies

Religion, Law, & Society


Interpreting the Free Exercise of Religion
The Constitution and American Pluralism
by Bette Novit Evans

"Evans fills a need in the literature and the law, especially in these times of ferment in the Supreme Court's and the polity's thinking about the two religion clauses of the First Amendment. Her original and thoughtful argument draws on important sources and issues in constitutional law, political theory, and the political science of interest groups. The author knows the landscape of this subtle and hard land."Donald A. Downs, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Approx. 328 pp., 2374-0 $45.00 cl
4674-0 $17.95 pa

Religion and American Education
Rethinking a National Dilemma
by Warren A. Nord

"A powerful book, perhaps the most judicious, most persuasive discussion about the proper role of religion in the public schools to appear in print. . . . Deserves the widest possible audience, and should be required reading for school administrators and faculty at all levels of American education." Religion & Education

"The definitive statement of the problem and its solution. . . . The discussion is balanced, fair, and based on careful and wide-ranging research. Here is the starting point for the debate that is coming." Jacob Neusner, University of South Florida

502 pp., 2165-9 $49.95 cl

4478-0 $19.95 pa

The Establishment Clause
Religion and the First Amendment
by Leonard W. Levy

Second Edition, Revised

"Levy [is] one of the best of our constitutional historians. . . . This is a strong, admirable book at times, even passionate."New York Times Book Review

"America's foremost historian of law provides a profoundly intelligent contribution to an issue that regularly gets confused in the hands of superficial commentators. . . . A powerful argument." Philadelphia Inquirer

300 pp., 2156-X $39.50 cl

4466-7 $16.95 pa

Blasphemy
Verbal Offense against the Sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie
by Leonard W. Levy

"A tour de force. . . . This work is both an essential casebook and an outspoken, feisty, important study of the struggle for intellectual and religious liberties."Publishers Weekly

700 pp., 4515-9 $18.95 pa

The Greening of Protestant Thought
by Robert Booth Fowler

"A clear guide to the contours and variety of contemporary American Protestantism's engagement with the ecology movement. . . . Provides a provocative test case for examination of the interactive nature of religion and American social thought and experience."Journal of American History

252 pp., 2205-1 $34.95 cl
4517-5 $14.95 pa