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Informationen zum Autor John T. Noonan Jr. has served as Judge on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1986. He is Robbins Professor Emeritus at Boalt School of Law at the University of California! Berkeley! and the author of prize-winning work in history! philosophy! and theology. His books include Bribes (California! 1988) and The Antelope: The Ordeal of the Recaptured Africans in the Administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams (California! 1977). Klappentext "A truly remarkable work of immense learning and urgent relevance. It explores the very roots of the notions of freedom which underlie a constitutional democracy. . . . This is a great work, grounded in vast learning and love of the principles of law, reason, and religion. "—Lawrence E. Sullivan, Director, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School "A wide-ranging study of freedom of religion and its connections to the establishment, set in a context of American constitutional law, American political thought, American political development, and most interestingly, constitutional development elsewhere, with 'elsewhere' including modern Catholicism."—Walter F. Murphy, Princeton University "One of the world’s towering intellects has produced this remarkably learned, multidisciplinary study. Noonan fully addresses the blight of religious violence and bigotry along with the tolerance, the love of the ‘other,’ and above all the centrality of individual conscience that ideally accompany religious freedom."—Norman Dorsen, Stokes Professor of Law, New York University, and President, American Civil Liberties Union, 1977-1991 Zusammenfassung Offers a fresh approach to a freedom that is often taken for granted in the United States, yet is one of the strongest and proudest elements of American culture: religious freedom. This book asserts that freedom of religion, as James Madison conceived it, is an American invention previously unknown to any nation on earth....
