Religion-State Relations in the United States and Germany - The Quest for Neutrality

Informationen zum Autor Claudia E. Haupt is the International and Comparative Law Fellow at George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC. She previously practised law in Cologne and taught US constitutional history as an adjunct in the department of Anglo-American History at the University of Cologne. Klappentext An examination of the meaning of neutrality in religion-state relations in the constitutional jurisprudence of the United States and Germany. Zusammenfassung Claudia E. Haupt provides a comparative analysis of the constitutional law of religion-state relations in the United States and Germany. In Germany! neutrality means more distance between religion and the state! whereas the opposite is the case in the United States. But neutrality has multiple meanings in both countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Comparative Approach: 1. The past and present of comparative constitutional studies; 2. The culture wars, American exceptionalism, and a comparative analysis of religion-state relations; 3. Employing a comparative approach; Part II. Religion-State Relations and the Role of Neutrality: 4. Toward neutrality; 5. The role of history; 6. The roots of neutrality; 7. Delineating neutrality; 8. Conclusion: the future of neutrality in comparative perspective.

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• Authors: Claudia E Haupt, Claudia E. Haupt, Claudia E. (George Washington University Haupt, Haupt Claudia E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2011
• EAN: 9781107015821
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01582-1
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, Germany, LAW / Comparative, United States of America, USA, comparative law, Religion and Politics, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general