Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States Sarat Hardback

Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States\n\nAccomodation and its Limits\n\nThis book questions what practices constitute a 'religious activity' such that it cannot be supported or funded by government.\n\nAustin Sarat (Edited by)\n\n9781107023680, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 10 September 2012\n\n217 pages\n23.4 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.57 kg\n\nThere is an enormous scholarly literature on law's treatment of religion. Most scholars now recognize that although the US 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 rules raise questions that will be addressed in Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: namely, what practices constitute a 'religious activity' s]