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Master Metaphors And Double-Coding In The Encounters Of Religion And State, Perry Dane
Master Metaphors And Double-Coding In The Encounters Of Religion And State, Perry Dane
San Diego Law Review
That term “existential encounter” is meant to convey several important ideas. First, it suggests that what is at stake here is not merely a set of legal doctrines or policy prescriptions, but something deeper and more constitutive. The sovereign nation-state, in some sense, looks out at the world around it and sees other entities that do not easily fit into its own internal sovereign architecture. Some of these are other nation-states. Some might be other types of essentially secular, but non-state, human associations. And others are, or should be, communities—large and small, organized or not, united or splintered—whose normative commitment …
Religious Institutionalism In A Canadian Context, Victor M. Muñiz-Fraticelli, Lawrence David
Religious Institutionalism In A Canadian Context, Victor M. Muñiz-Fraticelli, Lawrence David
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Does freedom of religion protect religious institutions or does it only protect the individual religious conscience? Canadian jurisprudence after the enactment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms takes a decidedly individualist turn, deliberately avoiding the question of the rights of religious institutions. This individualist focus neglects the historical trajectory of religious freedom, the social understanding of religious faith by religious adherents themselves, and the institutional structures in which religion emerges and develops (and through which it is ultimately protected). An institutional account of religious liberty can complement the individualist account, as it better explains the legal order, better …
From Dysfunction And Polarization To Legislation: Native American Religious Freedom Rights And Minnesota Autopsy Law, Gail T. Kulick, Tadd M. Johnson, Rebecca St. George, Emily Segar-Johnson
From Dysfunction And Polarization To Legislation: Native American Religious Freedom Rights And Minnesota Autopsy Law, Gail T. Kulick, Tadd M. Johnson, Rebecca St. George, Emily Segar-Johnson
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
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