A Bibliography Plus Forthcoming Books of Interest

The Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and Religion has issued its Annual Newsletter for 2011, containing an extensive bibliography of law-and-religion books and articles published during 2011, as well as a listing of relevant blogs.

Here are some just-published and forthcoming books that may be of interest to Religion Clause readers:

• John M. Barry, Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State and the Birth of Liberty, (Viking Adult, Jan. 5, 2012), reviewed by the New York Times.
• Katherine Stewart, The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children,(Public Affairs Books, Jan. 24, 2012).
• John D. Brewer, Gareth I. Higgins & Francis Teeney, Religion, Civil Society, and Peace in Northern Ireland, (Oxford Univ. Press, Dec. 2011).
• Jeremy Waldron, The Harm in Hate Speech, (Harvard Univ. Press, May 2012).
• Michael P. Winship, Godly Republicanism: Puritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a Hill, (Harvard Univ. Press, April 2012).
• Melanie Heath, One Marriage under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America, (NYU Press, April 2012).
• Yunas Samad, The Pakistan-US Conundrum: Jihadists, the Military and the People–The Struggle for Control, (Columbia Univ. Press, Dec. 2011).
• Amanda Porterfield, Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation, (Univ. of Chicago Press, May 2012),