TY  - BOOK
AU  - McIvor,Méadhbh
TI  - Representing God: Christian Legal Activism in Contemporary England 
SN  - 9780691211619
U1  - 342.410852 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Christianity and politics
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Freedom of religion
KW  - Religion and law
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aliens and Strangers?
KW  - American Christianity
KW  - American law
KW  - Andrea Hatcher
KW  - Anna Strhan
KW  - Anna Su
KW  - Article 9 ECHR
KW  - Beyond Religious Freedom
KW  - Biblically inflected speech
KW  - Carol Greenhouse
KW  - Christ Church
KW  - Christian Concern
KW  - Christian Legal Centre
KW  - Christian activism
KW  - Christian theology
KW  - ECHR
KW  - Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
KW  - English Christianity
KW  - English law
KW  - European Christians
KW  - European Convention on Human Rights
KW  - Exporting Freedom
KW  - God's Agents
KW  - Human Rights Act of 1998
KW  - Matthew Engelke
KW  - Moral Ambition
KW  - Omri Elisha
KW  - Praying for Justice
KW  - Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law
KW  - Religious Difference in a Secular Age
KW  - Ronald Niezen
KW  - Saba Mahmood
KW  - Serving the World
KW  - Stephen Chapman
KW  - Straight to Jesus
KW  - Susan Friend Harding
KW  - Tanya Erzen
KW  - The Book of Jerry Falwell
KW  - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
KW  - The Law and the Prophets
KW  - The Religious and Political Identities of British Evangelicals
KW  - Vincent Crapanzano
KW  - Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
KW  - activist-minded Christians
KW  - antidiscrimination
KW  - church-state relations
KW  - conservative Christian communities
KW  - conservative Christians
KW  - conservative Protestants
KW  - evangelicalism
KW  - hostile state
KW  - hostile world thesis
KW  - human rights law
KW  - human rights witnessing
KW  - legal activists
KW  - legal religion
KW  - lived religion
KW  - lobby groups
KW  - passive accommodation
KW  - prescriptive regulation
KW  - public Christianity
KW  - religious freedom
KW  - religious jewelry
KW  - religious liberty
KW  - religious organizations
KW  - religious organizing
KW  - secular law
KW  - secularization
KW  - social movements
KW  - state control
KW  - theology and law
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Palm Fronds in the Public Square --; Chapter one. Confronting a Hostile World --; Chapter two. Grace and Law --; Chapter three. Broken Cisterns --; Chapter four. Getting Rights 'Right' --; Chapter five. Communicative Doubt --; Conclusion: Good Things Worth Sharing? --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A multifaceted exploration of how evangelical politico-legal activism in England is contributing to the secularizing forces it seeks to challengeOver the past two decades, a growing number of Christians in England have gone to court to enforce their right to religious liberty. Funded by conservative lobby groups and influenced by the legal strategies of their American peers, these claimants-registrars who conscientiously object to performing the marriages of same-sex couples, say, or employees asking for exceptions to uniform policies that forbid visible crucifixes-highlight the uneasy truce between law and religion in a country that maintains an established Church but is wary of public displays of religious conviction.Representing God charts the changing place of public Christianity in England through the rise of Christian political activism and litigation. Based on two years of fieldwork split between a conservative Christian lobby group and a conservative evangelical church, Méadhbh McIvor explores the ideas and contested reception of this ostensibly American-inspired legal rhetoric. She argues that legal challenges aimed at protecting "Christian values" ultimately jeopardize those values, as moralities woven into the fabric of English national life are filtered from their "idian context and rebranded as the niche interests of a cultural minority. By framing certain moral practices as specifically Christian, these activists present their religious convictions as something increasingly set apart from broader English culture, thereby hastening the secularization they seek to counter.Representing God offers a unique look at how Christian politico-legal activism in England simultaneously responds to and constitutes the religious life of a nation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691211619?locatt=mode:legacy
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