Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience —— The Radical Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion

----- 超越信念，超越良心：自由行使宗教的根本意义

ISBN: 9780195305814 出版年：2020 页码：241 Rakove, Jack N Oxford University Press

In Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack Rakove makes broad claims about how religious freedom affects us. He contrasts the radical course of American developments with the more complicated ways in which Europeans tried to promote religious tolerance. He argues that both freedom of conscience and disestablishment were critical constitutional principles whose significance we no longer fully appreciate. Rakove explains why Jefferson's and Madison's understanding of these concepts were influential to their constitutional thinking. And he examines some of our contemporary controversies over church and state from the vantage point, not of legal doctrine, but of the deeper history that gave the U.S. its unique approach to religious freedom.