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Discrimination against Atheists : a New Legal Hierarchy among Religious Beliefs.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Recht und GesellschaftPublication details: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (204 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781593326753
  • 1593326750
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Discrimination against Atheists : A New Legal Hierarchy among Religious Beliefs.DDC classification:
  • 342.7308/52 342.730852
LOC classification:
  • KF4868.A84 W45 2011
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Atheists and America's Civil Religion; Chapter 3: The Boy Scouts and Atheist Exclusion; Chapter 4: Michael Newdow and the Pledge of Allegiance:Is Participation in Civil Religion Truly Voluntary?; Chapter 5: Prospects for Future Action; Bibliography; Cases Cited; Index.
Summary: Weiler-Harwell examines continuing, legal, discrimination against atheists, as made clear in two cases: Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000) and Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004). These rulings created a new, discriminatory level of distinction for believers versus non-believers that is ahistorical in light of previous Supreme Court precedent. Both cases created new standards for analyzing equality under the law for non-conformists such as atheists, shaping a new hierarchy of protected and unprotected forms of religious belief. The new judicial standards elevate monotheistic r.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)520571

Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Atheists and America's Civil Religion; Chapter 3: The Boy Scouts and Atheist Exclusion; Chapter 4: Michael Newdow and the Pledge of Allegiance:Is Participation in Civil Religion Truly Voluntary?; Chapter 5: Prospects for Future Action; Bibliography; Cases Cited; Index.

Weiler-Harwell examines continuing, legal, discrimination against atheists, as made clear in two cases: Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000) and Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004). These rulings created a new, discriminatory level of distinction for believers versus non-believers that is ahistorical in light of previous Supreme Court precedent. Both cases created new standards for analyzing equality under the law for non-conformists such as atheists, shaping a new hierarchy of protected and unprotected forms of religious belief. The new judicial standards elevate monotheistic r.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-187) and index.

English.