The Bible in the Park: Federal District Courts, Religious Speech, and the Public Forum

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Ihave incurred many intellectual debts throughout this project, so I thank the following for their help and support along the way. Thanks especially to my wife Kathryn and all the extended family: Margaret and Angus, my mother Janet, Rachel, Jeff (and Ryan), and David and Judith. Thanks also to Henry J. Abraham and David M. O’Brien at the University of Virginia; Chris Banks at the University of Akron; Barbara Perry, Jeff Key, and Steve Bragaw at Sweet Briar College; Don Jackson and Mary Volcansek at Texas Christian University; Ben Vetter at the University of Chicago Law School; Lu Leake at Wake Forest University; and Jim Curry, Derek Davis, and many others at Baylor University. Two anonymous readers for the University of Akron Press provided very helpful comments in their review of the manuscript, and the editing, production, and marketing staff at the Press proved indispensable in turning the manuscript into a book. I also thank the Political Science faculties at the following universities for their insightful and helpful comments: University of Northern Iowa, University of South Florida (especially Steve Tauber and Thomas Smith), Linfield College, Concord College, Wright State University, Cal State University Chico, and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. I received many helpful comments from panelists at the American Political Science Association and Southwest Political Science Association annual meetings in 2002 xxi and 2003, as well as many insightful and helpful comments from the American Constitution Society at the University of Chicago Law School. Parts of chapter 3 were previously published in the Journal of Church and State. Many thanks to the Journal for granting permission to reproduce parts of my essay in this book. The citation is: “Federal District Courts, Religious Speech, and the Public Forum: An Analysis of Litigation Patterns and Outcomes,” Journal of Church and State 44 (Winter 2002): 93–113. Acknowledgments xxii ...