All Political Questions Are Ultimately Religious: The American Founding and the Tai Ji Men Case
The relationship between centralization, personal rights, taxes, and religious liberty was an important aspect of the American Founding. The paper discusses the main historical events at the origins of the United States, and proposes a comparison with a case in contemporary Taiwan, where a spiritual...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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The journal of CESNUR
Year: 2023, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 58-71 |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | The relationship between centralization, personal rights, taxes, and religious liberty was an important aspect of the American Founding. The paper discusses the main historical events at the origins of the United States, and proposes a comparison with a case in contemporary Taiwan, where a spiritual movement, Tai Ji Men, was discriminated through ill-founded tax-bills. The Tai Ji Men case is not merely a tax issue, but a question of freedom of religion or belief. It shows what America’s Founding Fathers knew, i.e., that the deepest political questions have ultimately a religious dimension. [A shorter version of this paper was presented at the session “New Religious and Spiritual Movements, Discrimination, and Democracy in Taiwan” of the European Academy of Religion 2022 Annual Meeting in Bologna, Italy]. |
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| ISSN: | 2532-2990 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of CESNUR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2023.7.2.3 |
