TY - BOOK ID - 77872801 TI - Trumping religion PY - 2002 SN - 0817381732 9780817381738 0817311785 9780817311780 9780817351403 PB - Tuscaloosa, Ala. University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - Church and state KW - Freedom of religion KW - Christianity and politics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77872801 AB - The first scholarly treatment of the strategies employed by the New Christian Right in litigating cases regarding religion. Trumping Religion provides a detailed analysis of the five major public-interest law firms that have litigated religion cases in the federal courts between 1980 and 2000. Allied with several highly vocal, evangelical ministries, such as those of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson, these legal organizations argue that religious expression is a form of protected speech and thereby gain a greater latitude of interpretation in the courts. The lo ER -