Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: Accomodation and Its Limits (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107692442)

There is an enormous scholarly literature on law's treatment of religion. Most scholars now recognize that although the U.S. 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?

Author: Austin Sarat
ISBN-10: 110769244X
ISBN-13: 9781107692442
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/05/2014
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d