RT Article
T1 Religious Freedom and the Churches: Contemporary Challenges in the United States Today
JF Studies in Christian ethics
VO 33
IS 2
SP 194
OP 204
A1 Garnett, Richard W.
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1694666840
AB A crucial, but often overlooked, dimension of the human and constitutional right to religious freedom is the autonomy of religious institutions, associations and societies with respect to matters of governance, doctrine, formation and membership. Although the Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed this autonomy in the context of American constitutional law, it is vulnerable, and even under threat, for a variety of reasons, including a general decline in the health of civil society and mediating associations and a crisis of confidence and authority caused by clerical sexual abuse and churches' failure to respond to it.
K1 First Amendment
K1 Religious Liberty
K1 clergy abuse
K1 freedom of association
K1 Ministerial Exception
K1 Pluralism
K1 religion clauses
K1 Secularism
DO 10.1177/0953946819896077