Legal responses to religious practices in the United States : accommodation and its limits / edited by Austin Sarat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of religion--United States.

Freedom of religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 311 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is an enormous scholarly literature on law's treatment of religion. Most scholars now recognize that although the US Supreme Court has not offered a consistent interpretation of what 'non-establishment' or religious freedom means, as a general matter it can be said that the First Amendment requires that government not give preference to one religion over another or, although this is more controversial, to religion over non-belief. But these rules raise questions that will be addressed in Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: namely, what practices constitute a 'religious activity' such that it cannot be supported or funded by government? And what is a religion, anyway? How should law understand matters of faith and accommodate religious practices?

Contents:

Introduction. The sacred and the profane in American law / Austin Sarat

A history of ambivalence : how religion and U.S. law have developed together / Amanda Porterfield

Religion's accommodation to American law and culture / Timothy Hoff

How should liberal democracies respond to faith-based groups that advocate discrimination? : State funding and nonprofit status / Corey Brettschneider

Freedom of speech, equal citizenship, and the anticaste principle : a commentary on regulating hate speech / Bryan K. Fair

Expanding the Bob Jones compromise / Caroline Mala Corbin

Religious practice and sex discrimination : an uneasy case for tolerance / Meredith Render

Religious freedom and the nondiscrimination norm / Richard W. Garnett

Law, religion, and kissing your sister / Paul Horwitz

Freedom of religion or freedom of the church? / Steven D. Smith

Government for the time being / William Brewbaker III.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781139889087

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OCLC:

815389329