Center for the Study of Religious Freedom
Fall 2011 Symposium
Religion in the Public Schools: Possibilities, Practices, and Pitfalls
After fifty years, the Supreme Court's decisions outlawing official prayer and Bible reading in public schools continue to impact the way religion is taught and expressed...[more]
New Center Book
This highly regarded work stems from the Center's Fall 2007 Symposium on religious freedom in colonial Virginia
University of Virginia Press, March 2011.
Religious Illiteracy and Religious Freedom
Americans are both deeply religious and profoundly ignorant about religion....[more]
The Supreme Court's Erosion of Religious Freedom
Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have continued a trend that has significantly eroded constitutional protection for religious freedom. [more]
First Amendment Authority Charles C. Haynes to Deliver Cookson Religious Freedom Lecture
Dr. Charles C. Haynes, director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., and senior scholar at the First Amendment Center, will deliver the 2011 Cookson Religious Freedom Lecture on Wednesday, October 5, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., entitled "From Battleground to Common Ground: Religious Liberty in Public Schools."... [more]
Religious Freedom Documents
Explore the texts of several important historical and contemporary documents addressing religious liberty.
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
"Well aware that Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy...[more]
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