The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (eBook)

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Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400890330 (ISBN)

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The Constitution may guarantee it. But religious freedom in America is, in fact, impossible. So argues this timely and iconoclastic work by law and religion scholar Winnifred Sullivan. Sullivan uses as the backdrop for the book the trial of Warner vs. Boca Raton, a recent case concerning the laws that protect the free exercise of religion in America. The trial, for which the author served as an expert witness, concerned regulations banning certain memorials from a multiconfessional nondenominational cemetery in Boca Raton, Florida. The book portrays the unsuccessful struggle of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish families in Boca Raton to preserve the practice of placing such religious artifacts as crosses and stars of David on the graves of the city-owned burial ground. Sullivan demonstrates how, during the course of the proceeding, citizens from all walks of life and religious backgrounds were harassed to define just what their religion is. She argues that their plight points up a shocking truth: religion cannot be coherently defined for the purposes of American law, because everyone has different definitions of what religion is. Indeed, while religious freedom as a political idea was arguably once a force for tolerance, it has now become a force for intolerance, she maintains. A clear-eyed look at the laws created to protect religious freedom, this vigorously argued book offers a new take on a right deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society. It will have broad appeal not only for religion scholars, but also for anyone interested in law and the Constitution.Featuring a new preface by the author, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom offers a new take on a right deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society.

Autor

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Affiliate Professor in the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University Bloomington.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.4.2018
• Vorwort: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: americans • attempt • burial • Cantwell v. Connecticut • Catholic Church • Catholicism • Cemetery • Chaplain • Christian burial • Christianity • Christian theology • Christian tradition • church discipline • Church Fathers • Class action • Consideration • Constitutionality • Courtroom • culture war • Definition of religion • Determination • Discretion • Doctrine • Due Process • Employment Division v. Smith • Epitaphios (liturgical) • Establishment Clause • Expert witness • First Amendment to the United States Constitution • folk religion • freedom of religion • freedom of speech • Free Exercise Clause • headstone • Homo sacer • Iconography • injunction • James Boyd White • Jehovah's Witnesses • Jews • Judaism • Jurisprudence • Kohen • Law and Religion • Law of the United States • Legislation • Martin E. Marty • memorialization • Michael Broyde • Mourning • Mr. • narrative • native american church • nonbeliever • Old Testament • On Religion • Orthodoxy • Ownership • Peyote • Philip Hamburger • Philosopher • piety • plaintiff • Precedent • Protestantism • Publication • Rabbi • Rachel's Tomb • Regulation • Relativism • Religion • Religiosity • Religious Community • religious experience • Religious Freedom Restoration Act • Religious Law • Religious Studies • Religious symbol • religious text • rights • Right to petition in the United States • Rite • Rule of Law • Secularism • Secularization • seminary • separation of church and state • Sherbert v. Verner • Spirituality • spouse • State law (United States) • Statute • supreme court of the united states • Testimony • Theology • The Other Hand • tomb • To this Day • V. • Writing
• ISBN-13: 9781400890330 / 9781400890330