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Reconsidering Hostile Takeover Of Religious Organizations, B. Jessie Hill
Reconsidering Hostile Takeover Of Religious Organizations, B. Jessie Hill
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Beginning in 2016, the headlines of major publications began announcing that Donald Trump had successfully completed a “hostile takeover” of the Republican Party. Whether this appraisal is accurate or not, it reflects concern about the associational integrity of a voluntary private organization—the Republican Party—and it suggests that some forms of organizational transformation are problematic. Moreover, the same concern might arise regarding other private associations, including religious associations. Yet, given that some transformation is inevitable and universal within religious and other voluntary organizations, it would be unwarranted to assume that all change within a religious organization is necessarily problematic.
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Putting Religious Symbolism In Context: A Linguistic Critique Of The Endorsement Test, B. Jessie Hill
Putting Religious Symbolism In Context: A Linguistic Critique Of The Endorsement Test, B. Jessie Hill
Faculty Publications
The Supreme Court's jurisprudence concerning public displays of religious symbols is notoriously unpredictable. In this Article, Professor Hill argues that the instability and apparent incoherence of the Supreme Court's religious symbolism jurisprudence is due to certain difficulties inherent in discerning the "meaning" or "message" of a religious display. In particular, she attributes the unpredictability of the jurisprudence to the fact that the meaning of the display is dependent on the "context," which is itself an unmanageable and unformalizable concept. This Article, which draws on insights from literary and linguistic theory, breaks with previous commentators' claims that the difficulties with the …
Symposium On Religion And The Public Schools After Lee V. Weisman- Introduction, Jonathan L. Entin
Symposium On Religion And The Public Schools After Lee V. Weisman- Introduction, Jonathan L. Entin
Faculty Publications
Introduction to the Symposium: Religion and the Public Schools after Lee v. Weisman. Cleveland, Ohio, 1993
Of God And Caesar: The Free Exercise Rights Of Public School Students, George W. Dent
Of God And Caesar: The Free Exercise Rights Of Public School Students, George W. Dent
Faculty Publications
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