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Tisa Wenger

Tisa Wenger teaches at Yale Divinity School. She is the author of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom and Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal.

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Critical Essay

Americans have never agreed on what religious freedom means

Peyote use has been defended with religious liberty arguments. So has Bible reading in public schools.

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