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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785407103321

Autore

Waltman Jerold L. <1945->

Titolo

Religious free exercise and contemporary American politics : the saga of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 / / Jerold L. Waltman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Continuum, , 2011

ISBN

1-5013-0061-X

1-282-94800-8

9786612948008

1-4411-7439-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Disciplina

342.7308/52

Soggetti

Church property - Law and legislation - United States

Freedom of religion - United States

Land use - Law and legislation - United States

Prisoners - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Prisoners - Religious life - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-177) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Dilemmas of Free Exercise in Contemporary America -- Chapter 2: Free Exercise Jurisprudence Through 1997:  Reynolds to Boerne -- Chapter 3: The Fine Tuned Politics of Developing a Response -- Chapter 4: Building a Record to Meet the Demands of Section 5 -- Chapter 5: The Initial Opposition to RLPA -- Chapter 6:  From RLPA to RLUIPA: Civil Rights Versus Religious Liberty Takes Center Stage -- Chapter 7: Aftermath -- Chapter 8:  Conclusion -- Appendix A. City of Boerne v. Flores (1997) -- Appendix B. The Religious Liberty Protection Act (1999) -- Appendix C. The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (2000) -- Appendix D. Cutter v. Wilkinson (2005) --  Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

Religious Free Exercise and Contemporary American Politics explains why the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) had to undergo a major metamorphosis in order to win approval. The book uses this episode as a window onto the dynamics of modern



constitutional politics, specifically the constitutional politics of free exercise. The book argues that, although free exercise of religion remains an important value in American politics, it has been severely buffeted by both liberal individualism and identity politics. The former equates religious "choice" with all other types