Ellery's protest [electronic resource] : how one young man defied tradition & sparked the battle over school prayer / Stephen D. Solomon.

By: Solomon, Stephen DContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009Description: xi, 414, [8] p. of plates : illOther title: How one young man defied tradition and sparked the battle over school prayerSubject(s): Schempp, Edward -- Trials, litigation, etc | Schempp, Ellery Frank, 1940- -- Trials, litigation, etc | Abington School District (Abington, Montgomery County, Pa.) -- Trials, litigation, etc | Prayer in the public schools -- Law and legislation -- United States | Church and state -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 344.73/0796 LOC classification: KF228.A25 | S65 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Ellery's protest -- The making of a rebel -- Byse breaks the deadlock -- The sage and the upstart -- The colonists united church and state -- How religious diversity changed America -- Diversity forces religion from the schools -- Excessive religious zeal -- "Mr. Schempp, do you believe in the divinity of Christ?" -- Is the Bible sectarian? -- Why not recite the Navaho invocation to beauty? -- The race to the Supreme Court -- "Colored by our own experiences" -- Passion plays for all -- Back to Judge Biggs -- New York's "clay-footed pigeon" -- Fifty-one Buddhist children -- In chambers -- Days of Defiance -- Does Schempp have a future?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-390) and index.

Ellery's protest -- The making of a rebel -- Byse breaks the deadlock -- The sage and the upstart -- The colonists united church and state -- How religious diversity changed America -- Diversity forces religion from the schools -- Excessive religious zeal -- "Mr. Schempp, do you believe in the divinity of Christ?" -- Is the Bible sectarian? -- Why not recite the Navaho invocation to beauty? -- The race to the Supreme Court -- "Colored by our own experiences" -- Passion plays for all -- Back to Judge Biggs -- New York's "clay-footed pigeon" -- Fifty-one Buddhist children -- In chambers -- Days of Defiance -- Does Schempp have a future?

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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