books by Shawn Francis Peters (religious education witnesses)

books by Shawn Francis Peters

books:

The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, and Parental Rights (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)

1 review
Shawn Francis Peters

University Press of Kansas, 2003

Recommended for law school students
Prize-winning historian Shawn Peters presents The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, And Parental Rights, a scholarly study of the crucial 1972 Supreme Court ruling in a case when a Wisconsin Amish community claimed that compulsory education past a certain age was in conflict with its religious views and therefore removed its children from public schools. Also available in a hardcover ...

Judging Jehovah's Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the

14 reviews
Shawn Francis Peters

University Press of Kansas, 2002

great history book
As a history major and a Jehovah Witness I ound this book to be absolutely amazing. The book discusses in detail the facts leading up to the presecution of JWs in America, and also the persecution itself. I was amazed to lean how lil "freedom" there was in America at that time, as will all readers. If it was not for the JWs who knows what the US would have been able to do to people if the people ...

When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law
Shawn Francis Peters

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Relying on religious traditions that are as old as their faith itself, many devout Christians turn to prayer rather than medicine when their children fall victim to illness or injury. Faith healers claim that their practices are effective in restoring health - more effective, they say, than modern medicine. But, over the past century, hundreds of children have died after being denied the basic medical treatments furnished by physicians because ...

God on Trial: Dispatches from America's Religious Battlegrounds.(Book review): An article from: Journal of ...
Shawn Francis Peters

J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State, 2007

This digital document is an article from Journal of Church and State, published by J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State on September 22, 2007. The length of the article is 739 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: God on Trial: Dispatches from America's ...