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Weiler-Harwell Nina <1963-> |
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Titolo |
Discrimination against atheists : a new legal hierarchy among religious beliefs / / Nina Weiler-Harwell |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2011 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Collana |
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Law and society, recent scholarship |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Atheists - Legal status, laws, etc - United States |
Religious discrimination - Law and legislation - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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