God on trial
Subtitle: landmark cases from America's religious battlefields
By: Peter Irons
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780143113751
Subjects: Freedom of religion; Church and state
Notes: "First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin ... 2007"--Title page verso.

Originally published under title: God on trial : dispatches from America's religious battlefields.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-353) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Respecting an establishment of religion"; title: "A wall between church and state"; title: "We can never give up"; title: "With the cross of Jesus" : the Mount Soledad cross case from San Diego, California; title: "No pray, no play" : the football-game prayer case from Santa Fe, Texas; title: "I am the Lord thy God" : the Ten Commandments cases from Kentucky and Texas; title: "One nation, under God" : the Pledge of Allegiance case from Elk Grove, California; title: "In the beginning" : the "intelligent design" case from Dover, Pennsylvania.