The Problem with Religious Freedom

Tisa Wenger, Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal (2017).

Sarah Barringer Gordon

Most likely, Tisa Wenger’s new book Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal is not on many law professors’ reading lists. But for anyone who is interested in issues of church and state, race, and American empire, it should be. Wenger has uncovered a powerful collection of movements, legal claims, and government interference in religious life in the early twentieth century. Many of us have either […]