1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452675003321

Titolo

Legal responses to religious practices in the United States : accommodation and its limits / / edited by Austin Sarat [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-88908-7

1-139-57959-2

1-139-57277-6

1-139-15218-1

1-139-57354-3

1-139-56921-X

1-139-57102-8

1-283-63873-8

1-139-57011-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 311 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

342.7308/52

Soggetti

Freedom of religion - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction. The sacred and the profane in American law / Austin Sarat -- A history of ambivalence : how religion and U.S. law have developed together / Amanda Porterfield -- Religion's accommodation to American law and culture / Timothy Hoff -- How should liberal democracies respond to faith-based groups that advocate discrimination? : State funding and nonprofit status / Corey Brettschneider -- Freedom of speech, equal citizenship, and the anticaste principle : a commentary on regulating hate speech / Bryan K. Fair -- Expanding the Bob Jones compromise / Caroline Mala Corbin -- Religious practice and sex discrimination : an uneasy case for tolerance / Meredith Render -- Religious freedom and the nondiscrimination norm / Richard W. Garnett -- Law, religion, and kissing your sister / Paul Horwitz -- Freedom of religion or freedom of the church? / Steven D. Smith -- Government for the time being / William Brewbaker III.



Sommario/riassunto

There is an enormous scholarly literature on law's treatment of religion. Most scholars now recognize that although the US Supreme Court has not offered a consistent interpretation of what 'non-establishment' or religious freedom means, as a general matter it can be said that the First Amendment requires that government not give preference to one religion over another or, although this is more controversial, to religion over non-belief. But these rules raise questions that will be addressed in Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: namely, what practices constitute a 'religious activity' such that it cannot be supported or funded by government? And what is a religion, anyway? How should law understand matters of faith and accommodate religious practices?

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452319403321

Autore

Payne Stanley G

Titolo

The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and communism [[electronic resource] /] / Stanley G. Payne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-281-73090-4

9786611730901

0-300-13078-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xiv, 400 p.))

Disciplina

946.081/3/0947

Soggetti

Communism - Soviet Union

Communism - Spain

Electronic books.

Soviet Union Relations Spain

Spain History 1868-1931

Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939

Spain History Republic, 1931-1939

Spain Relations Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-377) and index.



Nota di contenuto

Soviet policy and the Comintern in the early years, 1917-1925 -- Communism and revolution in Spain, 1917-1931 -- Communism and the Second Republic, 1931-1934 -- From revolutionary insurrection to popular front, 1934-1936 -- Communism and the implosion of the republic, February-July 1936 -- Communism and the Spanish Revolution, July-August 1936 -- The Soviet decision to intervene militarily, July-October 1936 -- Soviet military participation, 1936-1939 -- The policy struggle under the Largo Caballero government, September 1936-May 1937 -- The Negr?in government, 1937-1938 -- Defeat, 1938-1939 -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

In this compelling book Stanley G. Payne offers the first comprehensive narrative of Soviet and Communist intervention in the revolution and civil war in Spain. He documents in unprecedented detail Soviet strategies, Comintern activities, and the role of the Communist party in Spain from the early 1930's to the end of the civil war in 1939.Drawing on a very broad range of Soviet and Spanish primary sources, including many only recently available, Payne changes our understanding of Soviet and Communist intentions in Spain, of Stalin's decision to intervene in the Spanish war, of the widely accepted characterization of the conflict as the struggle of fascism against democracy, and of the claim that Spain's war constituted the opening round of World War II. The author arrives at a new view of the Spanish Civil War and concludes not only that the Democratic Republic had many undemocratic components but also that the position of the Communist party was by no means counterrevolutionary.