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Book Edited by Professor Esbeck Chronicles Disestablishment and Religious Dissent in the New States at America’s Founding and Early Republic

Professor Carl H. Esbeck and historian Jonathan Den Hartog are the editors of a new book containing 21 essays that detail disestablishment in the original 13 states, as well as similar events in soon-to-be-admitted states like Vermont and Kentucky, and three Catholic disestablishments including Missouri. Myths, half-truths, and downright errors surround popular notions of American church-state relations. Disestablishment and Religious…

Cambridge University Press Publishes New Book by Professor Strong

Professor S.I. Strong’s most recent book, “Transforming Religious Liberties: A New Theory of Religious Rights for National and International Legal Systems,” was recently published by Cambridge University Press. The book considers the interaction between law and religion from a broad international, comparative and jurisprudential perspective and proposes a new theoretical approach to religious liberty. Not only does the text draw…