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Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Religion is our most personal freedom. It's the first thing the Bill of Rights guarantees all Americans and the last thing we'd think the government could take away. Between wedding cakes and travel bans, public schools, and private employers, the role of faith in public life is constantly in the news. Americans of many different faiths, for many different reasons, are worried the government is going to interfere with their freedom to believe. Could...
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 178 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A nonpartisan, unbiased look at the First Amendment and how it informs our daily lives, this book clearly explains the fundamentals of American politics to middle grade readers"--
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 1 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Christian teacher is forced before a judge for honestly answering a question about Jesus in the classroom. With the principal and superintendent joining forces with a zealous civil liberties group, Grace faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
1270L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Covers events ranging from the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France to prayer in schools to denying service to gay customers, exploring how free speech and religious freedom overlap and sometimes conflict in modern society.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the Cristero War (1926-1929) fought by the people of Mexico against the atheistic Mexican government. Focuses on retired General Enrique Gorostieta Velarde, who was reluctant to join in the war, and José Luis Sánchez del Rio, a young boy who witnessed a priest's murder and later is tortured by the government.
Publisher
SDS - Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reverend Dave is called to defend a group of Christian homeschooling families. He finds himself taken aback by the interference of the government and believing that their right to educate their children is a freedom worth fighting for. Reverend Dave is called to Washington DC to testify in a landmark congressional hearing that will determine the future of religious freedom in our country for years to come.
11) Genghis Khan and the quest for God: how the world's greatest conqueror gave us religious freedom
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Reveals how Genghis Khan harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known. By the New York Times best-selling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, "--NoveList.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ella Hilty's deepest desire is to marry Gideon Wittmer and be a mother to his three children. But before the betrothal and ceremony take place, Ella's 1918 Ohio Amish community gets caught in a storm of controversy when English government authorities dictate that Amish children must attend consolidated public schools rather than their one-room schoolhouse. English schoolteacher Margaret Simpson had given up thoughts of marriage years ago, and she's...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sacred Liberty offers a dramatic, sweeping survey of how America built a unique model of religious freedom, perhaps the nation's "greatest invention." Steven Waldman, the bestselling author of Founding Faith, shows how early ideas about religious liberty were tested and refined amidst the brutal persecution of Catholics, Baptists, Mormons, Quakers, African slaves, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses. American leaders drove religious...
15) Deep conviction: true stories of ordinary Americans fighting for the freedom to live their beliefs
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
vi, 378 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Deep conviction features four ordinary Americans--a Catholic, an atheist, a Native American, and a Christian baker--who put their reputations and livelihoods at risk as they fought to protect their first amendment right to live their personal beliefs."--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations, colored ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Values are the things we feel are important, such as the freedom to express our beliefs, or religion. No matter which religion people do or don't practice, our values teach us to respect each other's right to practice their religion. Young readers will learn that sharing values like this one helps us live and work together in a community"--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
FrontLine
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
American Christians are facing uncertain times. Our nation's values are under assault. Religious liberty has been undermined. We live in a day when right is now wrong and wrong is now right. The vicious left wing attack against the recent traditional marriage stance of Chick-fi-l-A should serve as a wakeup call to people of faith. It's not about a chicken sandwich. It's about religious liberty. It's about free speech. It's about the future of our...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xxi, 232 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this collection of illuminating conversations, renowned historian of world religions Huston Smith invites ten influential American Indian spiritual and political leaders to talk about their five-hundred-year struggle for religious freedom. Their intimate, impassioned dialogues yield profound insights into one of the most striking cases of tragic irony in history: the country that prides itself on religious freedom has resolutely denied those same...