Table of Contents

Introduction to Volume 1 1 CHAPTER O NE The Kingdom of This World 3 CHAPTER T WO Belief and Action 18 CHAPTER T HREE The Phantom Wall 32 CHAPTER F OUR Clouds of Witnesses 43 CHAPTER F IVE Expansion 60 CHAPTER S IX Contraction 90 CHAPTER S EVEN Religious Education and Public Support 122 C ONCLUSION 149 Notes 163 Bibliography 193 Index of Justices 205 Index of Cases 207 General Index 213

Promotional Information

This book and its companion volume provide a concise, but complete account of all the relevant cases since 1789 with sophisticated scholarly analysis. It is by far the best introduction I have seen to all that the Supreme Court has ever said about church and state. Hitchcock presents difficult and controversial material in a fair-minded manner, and the treatment of cases is remarkably free of polemic. A valuable and unique contribution to the field. -- Gerard V. Bradley, University of Notre Dame Hitchcock covers a tremendous amount of American legal history and does so with remarkable clarity and brevity. His arguments are nuanced and always thought-provoking. The book compels a rethinking of prevailing legal doctrines and thus has the potential to have a significant impact on the continuing debate on the constitutional relationships between religion and American life. -- Daniel Dreisbach, American University

About the Author

James Hitchcock is Professor of History at St. Louis University. He is the author of six books, including Catholicism and Modernity.

Reviews

"The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life provides for the general reader a useful road map through the history and case law. The first of the two volumes tells the history rather comprehensively, with a minimum of interpretive overlay. The second tries to understand the story. Hitchcock's work is especially valuable for his extensive coverage of the Court's religion jurisprudence before the deluge--that is, before the 1940s, when the Court deliberately made itself a tribunal of the nation's religious disputes."--Russell Hittinger, First Things