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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Why Secularism? -- 2. Atheists Are Not Un-American -- 3. Religion and Politics Now -- 4. Why Newt Gingrich's Abuse of Language Matters to the Defense of Secularism -- 5. History Is Not on the Side of the Angels -- 6. The Unchristian Roots of the Fourth of July -- 7. The Unchristian Nature of the US Constitution -- 8. From the Shores of Tripoli -- 9. Ten Commandments -- 10. Tolerance, Toleration, and Liberty -- 11. Secular Schooling: Public-School Policies and Curriculum Questions Affecting Religious Liberty -- 12. Holy Days and Holidays in a Secular Society -- 13. He Who Is Not with Me Is against Me -- 14. The Naked Public Square? -- 15. The Big Lie -- 16. God's Law -- 17. Blasphemy and Heresy -- 18. What in the Name of God? -- 19. Questions -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Contents: African traditional religion; Colonialism and Christianity; The rise of African nationalism; Religious pluralism in Africa.

From Toleration to Liberty: Religious Freedom as Concept and Constitutional Right -- Religious Wandering in French Romantic Culture -- Prodigal Sons and Daughters? Jewish Converts and Catholic Proselytism -- Family, Nation, and Freedom: Ivan Gagarin, the Swetchine Circle, and the Orthodox Road to Rome -- God and Liberty? Lamennais, Catholicism, and Freedom of Conscience -- Mysticism, Despair, and Progress: George Sand's Pursuit of Religious Liberty -- Philology and Freedom: Ernest Renan's Struggle with Catholicism.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) attempts to shield Americans from the sort of choice Antigone had to make between the state's command and her faith's calling. In general, the RFRA statutes ensure that government cannot compel an individual to act against her faith unless a compelling government interest demands it, and the measure is narrowly tailored to serve those interests. But when Indiana Governor Mike Pence became the 20th governor to sign a state-level RFRA into law in March, legal tragedy degenerated into political farce as the statute became the latest staging ground in the ongoing national debate on gay rights. Gay-rights activists charged that the Indiana law amounted to a license to discriminate on religious pretexts. The American Civil Liberties Union, originally one of the key supporters of the federal RFRA, denounced the statute as a terrible and dangerous mistake, and Hillary Clinton, whose husband signed the original act into law in 1993, lamented on Twitter: Sad this new Indiana law can happen in America today. Adapted from the source document.

Provides a forward to the book The Founders on God and Government in which the author argues that political historians have overlooked the ties between religion & politics in the founding of the United States. Adapted from the source document