Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: Accomodation and Its Limits

by Elisabeth Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110769244X
• ISBN13: 9781107692442
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"