The Religion Clauses

Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. His most recent books are We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century (2018), and two books published in 2017, Closing the Courthouse Doors: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable and Free Speech on Campus (with Howard Gillman). He also is the author of more than 200 law review articles. He writes a regular column for The Sacramento Bee, monthly columns for The ABA Journal and The Daily Journal, and frequent op-eds in newspapers across the country. He also frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court.Howard Gillman is chancellor of the University of California, Irvine and holds faculty appointments in the School of Law and the Departments of Political Science, History, and Criminology, Law and Society. He is the author of Free Speech on Campus (with Erwin Chemerinsky) and The Votes that Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election (2001).

• PrefaceChapter 1. The Competing Perspectives of the Religion ClausesChapter 2. The Concerns of the FoundersChapter 3. The Establishment Clause: In Defense of Separating Church and StateChapter 4. The Free Exercise of Religion: Guarding Against Religious Animus But Defending Neutral Laws of General ApplicabilityChapter 5. Why Separation Is Not HostilityNotes Index

A key point in their argument relies upon the drastic change from the America of the founding era to the America of the twenty-first century. They accurately point out that current American society is comprised of much more diverse religious groups.