Religion, Law, USA

Isaac Weiner (Editor) Isaac Weiner is Associate Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University and author of Religion Out Loud: Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism (NYU Press, 2014)Joshua Dubler (Editor) Joshua Dubler is Associate Professor of Religion at University of Rochester. He is author of Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), coauthor of Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons (Oxford, 2019); and coeditor of Religion, Law, USA (NYU Press, 2019).

This artfully constructed, richly complex collection does an excellent job of examining the persistent disconnect between scholarly understanding of religion and court cases involving religion. (Choice) Here, we finally have a thoroughly interdisciplinary text that relies on case studies to (1) illustrate significant theoretical insights, and (2) model future work in American religious studies. (Reading Religion) Essential reading for scholars of new and alternative religious movements because the book provides concrete examples of people and groups who do not conform to white Protestant norms. It describes their struggle under the burdens that come as a result of the ways in which religion and law are adjudicated in the United States. The reviewer highly recommends the book to religion scholars in general, legal scholars, as well as graduate students in those fields. (Nova Religio) Religion, Law, USA, edited by Joshua Dubler and Isaac Weiner, explores various terms associated with law and religion…the inquiry has been fruitful…The discussion is detailed and helpful. - Luke C. Sheahan - Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (Journal of Church and State)