The Rhetoric of Church and State: A Critical Analysis of Religion Clause Jurisprudence - Couverture souple

Gedicks, Frederick Mark

 
9780822316664: The Rhetoric of Church and State: A Critical Analysis of Religion Clause Jurisprudence
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0822316668 ISBN 13 : 9780822316664
Editeur : Duke University Press, 1995

Synopsis

During the middle of the twentieth century, the religiously informed communitarianism that had guided the Supreme Court's decisions regarding the relationship between church and state was partially displaced by a new secular individualist discourse. In The Rhetoric of Church and State, Frederick Mark Gedicks argues that this partial and incomplete shift is the key to understanding why the Court has failed--and continues today to fail--to provide a coherent doctrine on church/state separation.
Gedicks suggests that the Supreme Court's inconsistent decisions mirror a divergence in American society between an increasingly secular public culture and the primarily devout private lives of the majority of Americans. He notes that while the Court is committed to principles of secular individualism, it has repeatedly endorsed government actions that violate those principles--actions that would be far more justifiable under the discourse of religious communitarianism. The impossibility of reconciling the two discourses leaves the Court no choice but to efface--often implausibly--the religious nature of practices it deems permissible. Gedicks concludes that the road to a coherent religion clause doctrine lies neither in a return to religious communitarianism nor in its complete displacement by secular individualism, but in a yet-to-be-identified discourse that would attract popular support while protecting a meaningful measure of religious freedom.

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À propos de l?auteur

Frederick Mark Gedicks is Professor of Law at Brigham Young University. He is coauthor with Roger Hendrix of Choosing the Dream: The Future of Religion in American Public Life.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822316668
ISBN 13 
9780822316664
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
184
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0822316544 ISBN 13 :  9780822316541
Editeur : Duke University Press, 1995
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