Religious Organizations and the Law Treatise

In the department of promotion of my own projects, may I recommend a new multiauthor treatise, Religious Organizations in the United States: A Study of Identity, Liberty, and the Law, just published by Carolina Academic Press, for purchase by your law school (or other institution's) library?  As the Carolina blurb puts it, "[t]he legal structures of religious organizations encompass not only their corporate organizations, but the many ways employment, property ownership, decisions regarding forms of ministry, and participation in society define a particular institution. . . .  The book [provides] a detailed description of policies, identity, and the effect of legal rules on church structures."  The authors include (among others) lawprofs Angela Carmella, Carl Esbeck, Edward Gaffney, Donald Hermann, Douglas Laycock, William Marshall, and yours truly, as well as well as religious-history eminence Martin Marty, USCCB general counsel Mark Chopko, leading sociologist of religion Rhys Williams, and newly minted federal judge (and ex-lawprof) Pat Schiltz.  As Rick recently noted, threats to religious institutional autonomy are becoming more frequent and pressing; this book offers some background and resources for responding to them.

Tom