Irons, Peter

God on trial : dispatches from America's religious battlefields / Peter Irons - New York : Viking , 2007. - xx, 362 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-353) and index.

"Respecting an establishment of religion" -- "A wall between church and state" -- "We can never give up" -- "With the cross of Jesus" : the Mount Soledad cross case from San Diego, California -- "No pray, no play" : the football-game prayer case from Santa Fe, Texas -- "I am the Lord thy God" : the Ten Commandments cases from Kentucky and Texas -- "One nation, under God" : the Pledge of Allegiance case from Elk Grove, California -- "In the beginning" : the "intelligent design" case from Dover, Pennsylvania.

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Freedom of religion---United States
Church and state---United States

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