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The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America (Landmark Law Cases & American Society)
Bruce J Dierenfield
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Description for The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America (Landmark Law Cases & American Society)
Hardcover. It has become known to many as the moment when the US Supreme Court kicked God out of the public schools, supposedly paving the way for a decline in educational quality and a dramatic rise in delinquency and immorality. This book helps readers understand why Americans remain divided on how divided church and state should be. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBTB; HRAM9; JNKC; LAZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
It has become known to many as the moment when the U.S. Supreme Court kicked God out of the public schools, supposedly paving the way for a decline in educational quality and a dramatic rise in delinquency and immorality. The 6-to-1 decision in Engel v. Vitale (1962) not only sparked outrage among a great many religious Americans, it also rallied those who cried out against what they perceived as a dangerously activist Court. Bruce Dierenfield has written a concise and readable guide to the first - and still most important - case that addressed the constitutionality of prayer in public ... Read more
It has become known to many as the moment when the U.S. Supreme Court kicked God out of the public schools, supposedly paving the way for a decline in educational quality and a dramatic rise in delinquency and immorality. The 6-to-1 decision in Engel v. Vitale (1962) not only sparked outrage among a great many religious Americans, it also rallied those who cried out against what they perceived as a dangerously activist Court. Bruce Dierenfield has written a concise and readable guide to the first - and still most important - case that addressed the constitutionality of prayer in public ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Landmark Law Cases and American Society
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700615254
SKU
V9780700615254
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About Bruce J Dierenfield
Bruce J. Dierenfield is professor of history at Canisius College and author of The Civil Rights Movement and Defending the Wall: The Minnesota Civil Liberties Union and the War against Religious Establishment.
Reviews for The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America (Landmark Law Cases & American Society)
The most readable, entertaining, refreshing, enlightening account of the Engel case yet written. Derek H. Davis, author of Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church/State Relations ""Never loses sight of the crucial fact that the controversy over religion in public schools belongs not to the captains and the kings but to ordinary people whose convictions - ... Read more