Religious free exercise and contemporary American politics
Subtitle: the saga of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000
By: Jerold L. Waltman.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781441108814; 9781441122032
Subjects: United States; Freedom of religion -- United States; Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States; Prisoners -- Religious life -- United States; Land use -- Law and legislation -- United States; Church property -- Law and legislation -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dilemmas of free exercise in contemporary America; title: Free exercise jurisprudence through 1997: Reynolds to Boerne; title: The fine tuned politics of developing a response; title: Building a record to meet the demands of section 5; title: The initial opposition to RLPA; title: From RLPA to RLUIPA: civil rights versus religious liberty takes center stage; title: Aftermath; title: Conclusion.