[Rezension von: Gillman, Howard, ca. 1958-, The religion clauses]
Professors Gillman and Chemerinsky contend that the religion clauses are most accurately interpreted when they support separationism. Separationism, as they define it, requires a separation of church and state, meaning "the government should be secular; the place for religion is in people’s liv...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2022, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 350-353 |
| Review of: | The religion clauses (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020) (Cook, Edwin)
The religion clauses (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020) (Cook, Edwin) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ State
/ USA, Supreme Court
/ USA
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| RelBib Classification: | KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Professors Gillman and Chemerinsky contend that the religion clauses are most accurately interpreted when they support separationism. Separationism, as they define it, requires a separation of church and state, meaning "the government should be secular; the place for religion is in people’s lives, their homes, and their places of worship" (p. xi). In support of their claim, they provide a synopsis of historical issues, political power, and views toward religion during the colonial era leading to the founding era when our nation’s foundational documents were written and enacted. A key point in their argument relies upon the drastic change from the America of the founding era to the America of the twenty-first century. They accurately point out that current American society is comprised of much more diverse religious groups. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csac013 |
