The Spirit of the Law: Lecture Video, and New Book

Filed Under (Religion Research) by Admin on 05-09-2010

Paul Harvey
Note: I’m reposting the following from the Legal History Blog; it gives you links to a lecture by noted legal/religious historian Sarah Gordon, of Penn Law School, and author of an important new book on the social history of religion and the law since WW II: The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America (Harvard U. Press). More soon on this book as I plan to read it as soon as I can. A more extensive review, which discusses the contents of the book in some detail, may be found here.

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Alleged Bomber of Christian Boy in Israel to Stand Trial

Filed Under (Religion In The News) by Admin on 05-09-2010

Yaakov Teitel ISTANBUL, September 3 (Compass Direct News) An Israeli man accused of planting a homemade bomb that almost killed the son of a Messianic Jewish pastor in Ariel, Israel has been declared competent to stand trial.

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