Encyclopedia of Religion and the Law in America
Encyclopedia of Religion and the Law in America
Editor: Grey House Publishing
Publication Year: 2009
Publisher: Grey House Publishing
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-59237-298-0
Category: Religion & Theology
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Extensive A-Z entries provide coverage of key court decisions, case studies, concepts, individuals, religious groups, organizations, and agencies shaping religion and law in today's society.
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Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION & USER GUIDE
- AN ESSENTIAL HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
- RELIGION AND THE LAW
- A
- Abington School District v. Schempp
- ABOLITION
- ABORTION
- ACCOMMODATION OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF
- ACCOMMODATIONIST (OR NONPREFERENTIALIST)
- ACLU Nebraska Foundation v. City of Plattsmouth
- ADOPTION .
- ADULTERY
- Aguilar v. Felton
- Allegheny County v. American Civil Liberties Union
- AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
- AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
- AMISH EXCEPTION
- ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
- ASYLUM
- ATHEISM
- B
- Baker v. Fales
- BANKRUPTCY
- BECKER AMENDMENT
- BELIEF-CONDUCT DICHOTOMY
- BIBLE DISTRIBUTION AT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- BIBLE, READING OF
- BILL OF RIGHTS
- BLACK CHURCH
- BLAINE AMENDMENT
- BLASPHEMY
- BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS
- Board of Education v. Allen
- Board of Education v. Grumet
- Board of Education v. Mergens
- Board of Trustees v. McCreary
- Bob Jones University v. United States
- Boerne, City of v. Flores
- Bowen v. Kendrick
- Bowen v. Roy
- Bradfield v. Roberts
- Braunfeld v. Brown
- Bronx Household of Faith v. Board of Education for the City of N.Y.
- Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson
- C
- CALIFORNIA MISSIONS PRESERVATION ACT
- CANON LAW
- Cantwell v. Connecticut
- CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany v. Serio
- CEREMONIAL DEISM
- CHAPLAINS
- CHARITABLE CHOICE PROVISION
- CHARITABLE CORPORATION
- CHARITABLE DEDUCTION
- CHARITABLE IMMUNITY
- CHARITABLE TRUST
- CHARITY
- CHILD BENEFIT THEORY
- CHILD CUSTODY
- CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY
- CHRISTIAN NATION
- CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST CHURCH
- CHURCH AND STATE
- CHURCH ARSON
- CHURCH AUTONOMY
- CHURCH AUTONOMY DISPUTES
- CHURCH AUTONOMY DOCTRINE
- CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS (MORMON CHURCH)
- Church of Latter-day Saints v. Amos
- CHURCH RECORDS
- CHURCH TRIBUNALS
- CIVIC RELIGION
- CLERGY
- CLERGY, BENEFIT OF
- CLERGY MALPRACTICE
- CLERGY SEX ABUSE
- COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS AND RELIGION
- Committee for Public Education and Liberty v. Regan
- COMMON LAW AND CHRISTIANITY
- CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR
- CONTRACEPTION
- COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS (CAIR)
- CRIMINAL CONDUCT
- CULT
- CULTURE WARS
- Cutter v. Wilkinson
- D
- Davis v. Beason
- DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT (DOMA)
- DEPROGRAMMING CASES
- DISESTABLISHMENT
- DIVISIVENESS DOCTRINE
- DIVORCE
- Doremus v. Board of Education
- DRUGS AND RELIGION
- DUE PROCESS CLAUSE
- E
- ECCLESIASTICAL CORPORATION
- ECCLESIASTICAL COURT .
- ECCLESIASTICAL DISPUTES
- ECCLESIASTICAL LAW
- Edwards v. Aguillard
- Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow
- Employment Division v. Smith
- ENDORSEMENT TEST
- Engel v. Vitale
- ENLIGHTENMENT
- Epperson v. Arkansas
- ESTABLISHED CHURCH
- ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE
- ETERNAL LAW
- EVANGELICAL MANIFESTO
- Everson v. Board of Education
- EXCESSIVE ENTANGLEMENT
- F
- FAITH HEALING
- FAITH-BASED INITIATIVES
- FAMILY LAW
- FEDERALISM
- FETAL RIGHTS
- FIRST AMENDMENT (U.S. CONSTITUTION)
- FLAG SALUTE CEREMONY
- FOREIGN POLICY
- Frazee v. Illinois Department of Employment Security
- FREE EXERCISE CLAUSE
- FREEDOM OF RELIGION
- FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AS A
- G
- Gillette v. United States
- Goldman v. Weinberger
- Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal
- GOVERNMENT AID TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS
- GOVERNMENT AID TO RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
- Grand Rapids School District v. Ball
- GRASSLEY INVESTIGATION OF TELEVANGELISTS
- H
- HATE CRIMES
- Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness
- Hernandez v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
- HOLIDAY DISPLAYS
- HOME SCHOOLING
- HOMOSEXUALITY
- HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
- I
- IN GOD WE TRUST
- INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT OF 1998
- J
- JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
- Jimmy Swaggart Ministries v. Board of Equalization
- Johnson v. Robison
- Jones v. Wolf
- JONESTOWN
- JUDAISM
- JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS AND RELIGION
- JUDICIAL DEFERENCE AND RELIGION
- JURY SERVICE AND RELIGION
- K
- KENNEWICK MAN CASE
- L
- Larkin v. Grendel's Den, Inc.
- Larson v. Valente
- Lemon v. Kurtzman
- Levitt v. Committee for Public Education
- Lynch v. Donnelly
- Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association
- M
- JAMES MADISON'S MEMORIAL AND REMONSTRANCE AGAINST RELIGIOUS ASSESSMENTS
- Marsh v. Chambers
- MARYLAND TOLERATION ACT (1649)
- MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONIAL CHARTERS (1629, 1691)
- McCollum v. Board of Education
- McCreary County v. ACLU
- McDaniel v. Paty
- MEDICAL TREATMENT
- MILITARY CHAPLAINS
- Minersville School District v. Gobitis
- MINISTERIAL EXEMPTION
- MOMENT OF SILENCE
- MOMENT OF SILENCE CASES
- MORMON CASES
- Mueller v. Allen
- MUSLIM CHARITIES
- MUTUAL ABSTINENCE
- N
- NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIONS
- NATURAL LAW
- NEGLIGENCE AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS
- NEUTRALITY STANDARD
- NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT (NRM)
- NONPROFIT CORPORATION
- Norwood v. Harrison
- O
- O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz
- ORIGINAL INTENT
- P
- PAGANS/WICCANS
- PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY /PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION
- PHARMACISTS CONSCIENCE CLAUSE
- Pierce v. Society of Sisters
- PLACE OF WORSHIP
- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
- POLYGAMY
- PRISONS AND PRISONERS
- PRIVACY
- PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION
- PROSELYTIZING
- PROSPERITY GOSPEL
- PROTESTANTISM
- PUBLIC FORUM
- PUBLIC OFFICE
- PUBLIC SCHOOL CURRICULUM
- PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES, ACCESS OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS TO
- PUBLIC SPACE AND RELIGION
- R
- RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, BASED ON RELIGION
- REGISTRATION OF RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS
- RELEASED-TIME PROGRAMS
- RELIGION AND POLITICS
- RELIGION, DEFINITION OF
- RELIGION IN THE WORKPLACE GUIDELINES
- RELIGIOUS BELIEF, DEFINITION OF
- RELIGIOUS BELIEF, SINCERITY AND TRUTH OF
- RELIGIOUS BROADCASTING
- RELIGIOUS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
- RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION
- RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT
- RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT
- RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS
- RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION
- RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
- RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AMENDMENT (1997)
- RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT (1993)
- RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM
- RELIGIOUS GARB
- RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS, GOVERNMENT CELEBRATION OF
- RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- RELIGIOUS LAND USE AND INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS ACT (RLUIPA)
- RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
- RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTECTION ACT
- RELIGIOUS OATHS
- RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION
- RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION
- RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
- RELIGIOUS PROPERTY
- RELIGIOUS PROTECTION LEGISLATION
- RELIGIOUS PURPOSES
- RELIGIOUS SOLICITATION, REGULATION OF
- RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS AND LANGUAGE
- RELIGIOUS TERRORISM
- RELIGIOUS TESTS
- Reynolds v. United States
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
- S
- SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- SCHOOL CHOICE
- SCHOOL PRAYER
- SCIENTOLOGY
- SCOPES TRIAL
- SEPARATIONIST
- SEPTEMBER 11TH ATTACKS AND RELIGION
- SHARED-TIME PROGRAMS
- Sherbert v. Verner
- SIKHS
- SOCIAL GOSPEL
- Staley v. Harris Co.
- STANDING TO SUE
- Stone v. Graham
- SUICIDE
- SUNDAY CLOSING LAWS
- T
- TAX EXEMPTIONS AND RELIGION
- TEN COMMANDMENTS
- Texas Monthly, Inc. v. Bullock
- TEXTBOOKS AND RELIGION
- Thomas v. Review Board
- Thornton v. Caldor
- Tilton v. Richardson
- TIME, PLACE, AND MANNER RESTRICTIONS
- TITHES/TITHING
- Tony and Susan Alamo Foundation v. Secretary of Labor
- Torcaso v. Watkins
- TORTS AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS
- TUITION TAX DEDUCTIONS OR CREDITS
- U
- UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION AND RELIGION
- UNENUMERATED RIGHTS
- UNITED NATIONS DECLARATIONS AND RESOLUTIONS ON RELIGION
- United States v. Ballard
- United States v. Lee
- V
- VACCINATIONS
- Van Orden v. Perry
- VIRGINIA STATUTE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (1777)
- VOUCHERS
- W
- “WALL OF SEPARATION” METAPHOR
- Wallace v. Jaffree
- Walz v. Tax Commission
- Watson v. Jones
- WELFARE REFORM ACT OF 1996
- Welsh v. United States
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
- Widmar v. Vincent
- Wisconsin v. Yoder
- Witters v. Washington Department of Services for the Blind
- Wolman v. Walter
- WORKPLACE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
- Z
- Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District
- ZONE OF PERMISSIBLE ACCOMMODATION
- ZONING
- Zorach v. Clausen
- Religion and the Law: Primary Documents
- Introduction
- U.S. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
- Colonial Charters
- State Constitutions
- Declaration of Independence*
- Bills and Legislation
- U.S. Federal Constitution
- Treaty of Tripoli, Article XI
- Blaine Amendment
- U.S. FEDERAL STATUTES
- Equal Access Act (summary)
- Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (summary)
- International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (summary)
- Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2649 (summary)
- UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination on Religion or Belief
- Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic Religious and Linguistic Minorities
- HISTORICAL COMMENTARY
- John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charity
- Roger Williams, The Bloody Tenet of Persecution*
- Dutch West India Company, Flushing Remonstrance
- William Penn, The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience*
- Benjamin Franklin, Toleration
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense*
- Red Jacket, Speech to the Iroquois Six Nations
- Thomas Kennedy, Speech Seeking Equal Rights for the Jews of Maryland
- Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the U.S. Constitution*
- Francis Lieber, Civil Liberty and Self-Government
- CONTEMPORARY COMMENTARY
- Dwight Eisenhower, Speech on Back to God Program
- John F. Kennedy, Speech at Greater Houston Ministerial Association
- Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham City Jail
- I Have a Dream
- Patrick Buchanan, Speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention
- George W. Bush, Inaugural Address
- John F. Kerry, Speech on Faith and Values at Pepperdine University*
- Barack Obama, Call to Renewal Keynote Address
- Mitt Romney, Speech on Faith in America
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, Speech on Faith at Baptist Convention*
- * indicates excerpts
- CHRONOLOGY
- TABLE OF CASES
- TABLE OF STATUTES
- FOR FURTHER READING
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS