Mary Segers is professor of political science at Rutgers University.Ted G. Jelen is chair of the political science department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.Clarke E. Cochran is professor of political science at Texas Tech University.

Jelen, Segers and Cochrane provide cogent arguments about the appropriate role of religion in American public life. A Wall of Separation? is a bridge to understanding.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part I. Debating the Public Role of ReligionChapter 3 In Defense of Religious MinimalismChapter 4 In Defense of Religious FreedomChapter 5 Selected BibliographyPart 6 Part II. ReadingsChapter 7 Thomas Jefferson, Reply to the Danbury Baptist Association, January 1, 1802Chapter 8 Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1781-1782Chapter 9 Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty, 1786Chapter 10 James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance on the Religious Rights of Man, 1784Chapter 11 U.S. Constitution, First Amendment, 1791Chapter 12 U.S. Constitution, Article VI, 1787Chapter 13 John F. Kennedy, Remarks on Church and State, Address Delivered to the Greater Houston MinisteriaChapter 14 Mario M. Cuomo, Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor's Perspective, AddresChapter 15 Selected Supreme Court Cases: Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township, 330 U.S. 1 (1947)Chapter 16 Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971)Chapter 17 Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990)Chapter 18 IndexChapter 19 About the Authors