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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785953503321

Autore

Weiler-Harwell Nina <1963->

Titolo

Discrimination against atheists [[electronic resource] ] : a new legal hierarchy among religious beliefs / / Nina Weiler-Harwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2011

ISBN

1-59332-675-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Collana

Law and society, recent scholarship

Disciplina

342.7308/52

Soggetti

Atheists - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Religious discrimination - Law and legislation - 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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