The Rise And Decline Of American Religious Freedom
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The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom
Author | : Steven D. Smith |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2014-02-18 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780674730137 |
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Familiar accounts of religious freedom in the United States often tell a story of visionary founders who broke from centuries-old patterns of Christendom to establish a political arrangement committed to secular and religiously neutral government. These novel commitments were supposedly embodied in the religion clauses of the First Amendment. But this story is largely a fairytale, Steven Smith says in this incisive examination of a much-mythologized subject. The American achievement was not a rejection of Christian commitments but a retrieval of classic Christian ideals of freedom of the church and of conscience. Smith maintains that the First Amendment was intended merely to preserve the political status quo in matters of religion. America's distinctive contribution was, rather, a commitment to open contestation between secularist and providentialist understandings of the nation which evolved over the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, far from vindicating constitutional principles, as conventional wisdom suggests, the Supreme Court imposed secular neutrality, which effectively repudiated this commitment to open contestation. Instead of upholding what was distinctively American and constitutional, these decisions subverted it. The negative consequences are visible today in the incoherence of religion clause jurisprudence and the intense culture wars in American politics.
Law and International Religious Freedom
Author | : Pasquale Annicchino |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2017-12-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781351858021 |
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This book analyzes the promotion and protection of freedom of religion in the international arena with a particular focus on the role and influence of the US International Religious Freedom Act, 1998. It also investigates the impact of the IRFA on the legislation and policies of third countries and the EU. The book develops the story of the protection of religious freedom through foreign policy by showing how religious laws affect and shape a more communitarian dimension of the notion of freedom of religion which stands in contrast with a traditionally Western individualistic understanding of the right. It is argued that it is still possible to defend the unstable category of freedom of religion or belief especially when major violations are at stake. The book presents a balanced contribution to the academic debate on the promotion and protection of religious freedom. The comparative approach and interdisciplinary methodology make it a valuable resource for academics, students and policy-makers in Law, International Relations and Strategic Studies.
The Myth of American Religious Freedom
Author | : David Sehat |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2011-01-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199793115 |
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In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American history, David Sehat writes, Protestant Christianity was intimately intertwined with the state. Yet the past was not the Christian utopia that conservatives imagine either. Instead, a Protestant moral establishment prevailed, using government power to punish free thinkers and religious dissidents. In The Myth of American Religious Freedom, Sehat provides an eye-opening history of religion in public life, overturning our most cherished myths. Originally, the First Amendment applied only to the federal government, which had limited authority. The Protestant moral establishment ruled on the state level. Using moral laws to uphold religious power, religious partisans enforced a moral and religious orthodoxy against Catholics, Jews, Mormons, agnostics, and others. Not until 1940 did the U.S. Supreme Court extend the First Amendment to the states. As the Supreme Court began to dismantle the connections between religion and government, Sehat argues, religious conservatives mobilized to maintain their power and began the culture wars of the last fifty years. To trace the rise and fall of this Protestant establishment, Sehat focuses on a series of dissenters--abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, socialist Eugene V. Debs, and many others. Shattering myths held by both the left and right, David Sehat forces us to rethink some of our most deeply held beliefs. By showing the bad history used on both sides, he denies partisans a safe refuge with the Founders.
The Rise of Religious Liberty in America
Author | : Sanford Hoadley Cobb |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044011015922 |
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Religion s Sudden Decline
Author | : Ronald F. Inglehart |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2021-01-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780197547045 |
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'Religion's Sudden Decline' provides evidence of a major decline in religion in most of the world, based on surveys of over 100 countries containing 90 percent of the world's population, carried out from 1981 to 2020 - the largest base of empirical evidence ever assembled to analyse mass acceptance or rejection of religion.--
Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age
Author | : Nelson Tebbe |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780674971431 |
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Nelson Tebbe shows how a method called social coherence offers a way to resolve conflicts between advocates of religious freedom and proponents of equality law. Based on the way people reason through moral problems in everyday life, it can lead to workable solutions in a wide range of issues, including gay rights and women’s reproductive choice.
Pagans and Christians in the City
Author | : Steven D. Smith |
Publsiher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781467451482 |
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Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith argues in this book that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today’s most controversial issues.
The Confluence of Law and Religion
Author | : Mark Hill,Celia Kenny,Russell Sandberg |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2016-04-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781107105430 |
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Examines the interdisciplinary development of law and religion, with a particular focus on Professor Norman Doe's pioneering role.