Religious Freedom: History, Cases, and Other Materials on the Interaction of Religion and Government. By John T. Noonan, Jr. and Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr. New York: Foundation Press, 2001. 998 pp. $60.00.
Religious Freedom is an excellent addition to contemporary literature on church-state relations. Professor Gaffney has substantially reworked and updated Judge Noonan's earlier solo-authored, but out-of-print work, The Believer and the Powers That Are (Macmillan, 1987). In addition to its review of cases, the earlier edition made available to students a large number of historical documents that graphically illustrate the intensity, pain, and complexity in the struggle for …