Amish and Hasidic Litigation: A Survival Strategy
Introduction The religious freedoms afforded by the First Amendment are rarely explored as potential threats to the survival of strict sects in the United States. Strict sects—ultra-insular, literalist religious groups—have historically suffered from state persecution; their survival depended on the...
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| 格式: | 電子 Article |
| 語言: | English |
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2021
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2021, 卷: 63, 發布: 3, Pages: 485-505 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
阿米什人
/ 哈瑞迪人
/ USA
/ 國家
/ 宗教
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law |
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| 總結: | Introduction The religious freedoms afforded by the First Amendment are rarely explored as potential threats to the survival of strict sects in the United States. Strict sects—ultra-insular, literalist religious groups—have historically suffered from state persecution; their survival depended on their ability to maintain a buffer zone, a strict separation, from society and its threat to both their physical well-being and their salvation. Intuitively, the state-sanctioned protection and mandate of non-involvement with religious groups should benefit strict sects. However, these protections actually come at a price to strict sects; a threat to the very separation that ensures their survival.While religious freedom and separation of church and state are meant as safeguards from state persecution, they are also meant as safeguards against any preferential treatment by the state of religious groups. Additionally, while the primary purpose of the First Amendment is to protect the individuals practicing religion, its purpose is also to... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csaa060 |