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Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: Accomodation and its Limits
Austin Sarat
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hardcover. This book questions what practices constitute a 'religious activity' such that it cannot be supported or funded by government. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Num Pages: 217 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; LAQ; LNT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 570. Accomodation and Its Limits. 217 pages. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. This book questions what practices constitute a 'religious activity' such that it cannot be supported or funded by government. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; LAQ; LNT. Dimension: 165 x 235 x 22. Weight: 570.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
Number of Pages
217
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107023680
SKU
V9781107023680
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About Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence Political Science at Amherst College and Justice Hugo L. Black Senior Faculty Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is author or editor of more than seventy books, including The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States; The Killing State: Capital Punishment in ... Read more
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