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The Handmaid of Politics - The Religious Left and Church-State Relations. By Steven H. Shiffrin. Princeton University Press2010. Pp. 256. $28.63. ISBN: 0-691-14144-4.

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The Religious Left and Church-State Relations. By Steven H. Shiffrin. Princeton University Press2010. Pp. 256. $28.63. ISBN: 0-691-14144-4.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Marc O. DeGirolami
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , 2010 , pp. 641 - 645
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2010

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References

1. Charles Frank Reavis, Sr. Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, New York.

2. See his 2-volume treatment: Greenawalt, Kent, Religion and the Constitution: Free Exercise and Fairness (Princeton Univ. Press 2006)Google Scholar; Greenawalt, Kent, Religion and the Constitution: Establishment and Fairness (Princeton Univ. Press 2008)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3. See Smith, Steven D., Foreordained Failure: The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom (Oxford Univ. Press 1995)Google Scholar.

4. Given the roots of Shiffrin's argument against school vouchers in Chapter 5, one wonders why the claim against vouchers should not then be limited to high school students.

5. See, e.g., Greenawalt, Kent, In Celebration of Steven Shiffrin's The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, 19 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 741 (2010)Google Scholar; Meyler, Bernadette, Constitutional Commitments and Religious Identity, 19 Cornell J.L. Pub. Pol'y 751 (2010)Google Scholar.

6. “Religious liberalism,” Shiffrin says, “does not believe that government can properly give religious arguments to justify public policy.” (107).

7. See Deglrolami, Marc O., Tragedy and History: The Quality of Religious Liberty (under contract, Harv. Univ. Press)Google Scholar.