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Author Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers, 1950- author.

Title Church, state, corporation : construing religion in US law / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020

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Contents Introduction. The Definite Article -- The Church Makes an Appearance: Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC -- "The Mother of Religion": The Church Property Cases -- Hobby Lobby: The Church, the State, and the Corporation -- The Body of Christ in Blackface -- Conclusion. The Church-in-law Otherwise
Summary "What is a church and what work does "church"-the church-do today in American law? In Church State Corporation, Sullivan argues that the appeals to "the church" we find in legal opinions express what she calls a "Christian mystical political theology" that naturalizes religion in the American legal imagination and limits the law's ability to acknowledge religion more broadly. To pinpoint the work the church does in US law, Sullivan examines two recent Supreme Court cases, Hosanna-Tabor v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2012) and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014), in order to map the contours of the "church-shaped space" at the heart of what constitutes religion in US law. Sullivan also examines a constellation of church property cases, cases developing corporate personhood such as Citizens United, and what the "Angola Church"-a collection of churches formed within the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola-reveals about the range of the church's influence in US law. In all, the reader is treated to a remarkably thought-provoking analysis of the ways the church persists in US law, one that calls into question our basic assumptions about our supposedly secular age"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Church and state -- United States -- Cases
Religion and law -- United States -- Cases
Christianity and politics -- United States
Religion -- General.
Religion -- Religion, Politics & State.
Law -- Civil Rights.
Law -- Corporate.
Christianity and politics
Church and state
Religion and law
United States
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Walter de Gruyter & Co. De Gruyter University Press Library (UPL) 2020
ISBN 9780226454726
022645472X