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Bruce Ledewitz

Bruce Ledewitz, Professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, is a recognized expert in the fields of criminal law and constitutional law and he has written widely in both specialized legal journals and national media such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. His books include Hallowed Secularism: Theory, Belief, Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and his latest is Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism from Indiana University Press.

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Religion Dispatches
In the concluding volume of his trilogy on religion and secularism, the author argues that there is no chasm between religious belief and non-belief; certainly not in terms of politics and not even in personal terms.
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Religion Dispatches
Non-believers and the community of liberal believers, typically the ones attempting to ban religious imagery from the public square, have avoided specifying which forms of communal expression of meaning are appropriate.
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Religion Dispatches
How did we get to the point where the infringement of a religious obligation is constitutionally irrelevant despite the existence in the text of a constitutional protection of religion?
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