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• Winner of Honorable Mention, 2021 Hubert Morken Best Book in Religion and Politics Award, APSA Religion & Politics Section.

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Hollis-Brusky, the author of a definitive and compelling study of the origins and mechanics of the Federalist Society, has done it again. Hollis-Brusky and Wilson's book, Separate But Faithful, is a comprehensive account of a legal movement on the rise, and one that has obtained significant positions of authority in government, including the courts. Their book is a must read for those seeking to understand the direction of the courts and the law, and how legal change happens. -Leah Litman, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, and co-host of the Supreme Court podcast Strict Scrutiny Separate But Faithful is a fascinating, exhaustively researched, and highly readable story of the rise and challenges faced by three ultraconservative religious law schools-Ave Maria, Liberty, and Regent-and their mission driven faculty and students. It is also theoretically rich, focusing especially on 'support structure' theory in relation to social movements and law, and full of insights about legal hierarchies, the structure of legal education, and the role of law in social change. In short, it is a superb contribution as narrative and theory-builder. -Bryant Garth, Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Co-director, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession, University of California-Irvine, and Affiliated Scholar and Director Emeritus, American Bar Foundation This fascinating book reveals how Christian Right legal activists built and deployed new law schools, litigation-support organizations and lawsuits in an attempt to radically transform American law-and how, although they fell short of this goal, they succeeded in others. An important book, carefully researched, abundantly documented, and startling in its implications. -Charles Epp, author of The Rights Revolution and Making Rights Real

"""This fascinating book reveals how Christian Right legal activists built and deployed new law schools, litigation-support organizations and lawsuits in an attempt to radically transform American law-and how, although they fell short of this goal, they succeeded in others. An important book, carefully researched, abundantly documented, and startling in its implications."" -Charles Epp, author of The Rights Revolution and Making Rights Real ""Separate But Faithful is a fascinating, exhaustively researched, and highly readable story of the rise and challenges faced by three ultraconservative religious law schools-Ave Maria, Liberty, and Regent-and their mission driven faculty and students. It is also theoretically rich, focusing especially on 'support structure' theory in relation to social movements and law, and full of insights about legal hierarchies, the structure of legal education, and the role of law in social change. In short, it is a superb contribution as narrative and theory-builder."" -Bryant Garth, Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Co-director, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession, University of California-Irvine, and Affiliated Scholar and Director Emeritus, American Bar Foundation ""Hollis-Brusky and Wilson's book, Separate But Faithful, is a comprehensive account of a legal movement on the rise, and one that has obtained significant positions of authority in government, including the courts. Their book is a must read for those seeking to understand the direction of the courts and the law, and how legal change happens."" -Leah Litman, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, and co-host of the Supreme Court podcast Strict Scrutiny"

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Amanda Hollis-Brusky is Associate Professor of Politics at Pomona College, where she teaches courses on American politics, constitutional law, and legal institutions. Her first book Ideas With Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution (OUP 2015, 2019) was the winner of the 2016 C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book on Law and Courts from the American Political Science Association. Joshua C. Wilson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver where his research and teaching addresses law, conservatism, and politics in the United States. He has two books on abortion politics: The Street Politics of Abortion: Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars (2013) and The New States of Abortion Politics (2016).

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