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Exercised Over "Free Exercise"

Richard N. Ostling | posted 11/02/2007
This article provided by the Engstrom Institute

The waning phase of the acrimonious Bush era features a newly aggressive secularism, reflected in bestsellers that cast sophomoric scorn upon believers of all faiths. According to a New York Times Book Review critic, it looks like America's ballyhooed culture war is petering out as the Religious Right suffers "the thrashings of a dinosaur that can do a lot of damage even in its final throes."

Or on the contrary, have evangelicals "joined the American elite," as the subtitle of a forthcoming book from Oxford University Press contends? Indeed, as a couple dozen other books warn, have believers grasped so much power that "fascists" or "Christocrats" or "Christianists" or "theocons" threaten to supplant American democracy with theocracy?

There is related confusion over religion's legal status. In his impassioned book The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square, Joseph P. Viteritti, director of Hunter College's graduate program in urban affairs, asserts that religious ...