David A. J. Richards is Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches constitutional law, criminal law, and (with Carol Gilligan) a seminar on resisting injustice. He is the author of sixteen books, most recently Tragic Manhood and Democracy: Verdi's Voice and the Powers of Musical Art (2004); Disarming Manhood: The Roots of Ethical Resistance (2005); The Case for Gay Rights: From Bowers to Lawrence and Beyond (2005); Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality, and Gender: A Critique of New Natural Law (with Nicholas Bamforth, 2008); The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future (with Carol Gilligan, 2009); and The Sodomy Cases: Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas (2009). He has served as vice president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and was the Shikes lecturer in civil liberties at the Harvard Law School in 1998.
Introduction: defining the problem
1. The progressive recognition of human rights under American constitutional law
Part I. Fundamentalism in Law: 2. The fundamentalism of constitutional originalism
3. The motivations of constitutional fundamentalism
Part II. Fundamentalism in Religion: 4. Fundamentalism in Roman Catholicism
5. Fundamentalism among Protestants
6. Mormon fundamentalism
Part III. Fundamentalism in Law and Religion: 7. Patriarchal roots of constitutional fundamentalism
8. Fundamentalism in religion and law
Conclusion: patriarchy as the American dilemma.
