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Faith On Trial - Religion and the Law in the United States

English · Paperback / Softback

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List of contents

Introduction

1. How to Describe a Wall

2. The Legal Basics

3. Handling Snakes

4. Disestablishment

5. Drafting the Bill of Rights

6. Legal Misfits in America: Jews, Catholics, and Latter-day Saints

7. Two’s Company, Three’s a Crime

8. Historical Interlude: The Irish and the Know-Nothings

9. Bible Wars

10. Separation of Church and School

11. Making a Federal Case Out of It: The Jehovah’s Witnesses

12. The Sin in Sincerity

13. Lemony Thicket: Modern Rules About Establishment

14. Sherbert and Yoder: Religious Freedom and the Limits of the Law

15. The Smith Case: The Peyote Road and the First Amendment

16. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act

17. RLUIPA and the Case of Jehovah v. Clarke

18. If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them

19. Going to and Fro: Religion on Display

20. The New Sanctuary Movement

21. Separation of Church and Politics

22. Conclusions

Bibliography

About the author

Mark J. T. Caggiano currently serves as minister at First Church in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. A former lawyer, he is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School and received his Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Boston College Law School, teaching First Amendment law concerning matters of religious rights and the separation of church and state.

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Product details

Authors Mark J. T. Caggiano, Mark J. T. (Mark J. T. Caggiano) Caggiano
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.03.2022
 
EAN 9781558968769
ISBN 978-1-55896-876-9
No. of pages 336
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Unitarian Universalism, LAW / Constitutional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State

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