Judicial Review and American Conservatism: Christianity, Public Education, and the Federal Courts in the Reagan Era

by Robert Daniel Rubin

The Christian Right of the 1980s forged its political identity largely in response to what it perceived as liberal 'judicial activism'. Robert Daniel Rubin tells this story as it played out in Mobile, Alabama. There, a community conflict pitted a group of conservative evangelicals, a sympathetic federal judge, and a handful of conservative intellectuals against a religious agnostic opposed to prayer in schools, and a school system accused of promoting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107060559
• ISBN13: 9781107060555
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"