Religious Freedom and the Churches: Contemporary Challenges in the United States Today
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 a...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Sage
[2019]
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Studies in Christian ethics
Año: 2020, Volumen: 33, Número: 2, Páginas: 194-204 |
| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | AD Sociología de la religión CG Cristianismo y política KBQ América del Norte XA Derecho |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
clergy abuse
B freedom of association B Pluralism B First Amendment B religion clauses B Religious Liberty B Ministerial Exception B Secularism |
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| Sumario: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946819896077 |