Church State Corporation – Construing Religion in US Law

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Church and state: a simple phrase that reflects one of the most famous and fraught relationships in the history of the United States. But what exactly is “the church,” and how is it understood in US law today? In Church State Corporation, religion and law scholar Winnifred Fallers Sullivan uncovers the deeply ambiguous and often unacknowledged ways in which Christian theology remains alive and at work in the American legal imagination.Through readings of the opinions of the US Supreme Court and other legal texts, Sullivan shows how “the church” as a religious collective is granted special privilege in US law. In-depth analyses of Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby reveal that the law tends to honor the religious rights of the group—whether in the form of a church, as in Hosanna-Tabor, or in corporate form, as in Hobby Lobby—over the rights of the individual, offering corporate religious entities an autonomy denied to their respective members. In discussing the various communities that construct the “church-shaped space” in American law, Sullivan also delves into disputes over church property, the legal exploitation of the black church in the criminal justice system, and the recent case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Brimming with insight, Church State Corporation provocatively challenges our most basic beliefs about the ties between religion and law in ostensibly secular democracies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-07-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:280 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226454696

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Bolagsrätt inom Juridik
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Mänskliga och medborgerliga rättigheter inom Juridik

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Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is provost professor in the department of religious studies, director of the Center for Religion and the Human, and affiliate professor of law at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of multiple books, including, most recently, Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State; Politics of Religious Freedom; and A Ministry of Presence: Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care, and the Law, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Recensioner i media

"Sullivan is a distinguished scholar of religious studies and law and religion. Her book, Church State Corporation, turns a humanist’s eye on the evolving law of religious institutions. . . . Sullivan does an excellent job of revealing oddities and inconsistencies in subtle details of the cases on religious institutions, of reading legal sources in creative ways to highlight unspoken assumptions, and of using nonlegal sources to pose questions about the way the law deals with religious institutions. The book is full of learned reflections on church history, religious sociology, and new directions in theology. Scholars of law and religion from any number of disciplinary backgrounds will find the book rich with ideas and provocations."

Innehållsförteckning

Note on CapitalizationNote to European ReadersIntroduction. The Definite ArticleChapter 1. The Church Makes an Appearance: Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOCChapter 2. “The Mother of Religion”: The Church Property CasesChapter 3. Hobby Lobby: The Church, the State, and the CorporationChapter 4. The Body of Christ in BlackfaceConclusion. The Church-in-law OtherwiseAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex