Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law
Gordon Turns to Postwar Era in Her Ongoing Study of Law and Religion |
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Four years after writing an award-winning book on the
Mormon practice of polygamy in the 19th Century, legal historian
Sarah Barringer Gordon is turning to the conflicts generated
between law and religion in the late 20th Century.
In an upcoming book, titled The Spirit of the Law: Religion
and Litigation in the Twentieth Century, Gordon explores
how believers have
shaped the constitutional
law of religion
since World War II,
and how America’s
unique concept of religious
liberty defines
the country. “One of
the real myths,” says
Gordon, “is that it
was secular people
who created that law,
and that’s not true, it
was believers.”
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