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The Rise Of Corporate Religious Liberty, Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flanders, Zoe Robinson
The Rise Of Corporate Religious Liberty, Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flanders, Zoe Robinson
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This Introduction to our edited book, The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty (Oxford University Press, 2016), offers an account of the “corporate turn” in law and religion. Here the term “corporate” refers to any organized body of people - groups, associations, organizations, and institutions - and, more specifically, to for-profit corporations. Our contention is that the relationship between law and religion has shifted dramatically in the last decade, moving from a conception of religious freedom focused mainly on individual liberty toward one that privileges the rights of religious organizations. We trace this development in two stages, describing the initial movement …