To God God's, to Caesar Caesar's, and to Both the Defining of Religion
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Authors
Ricks, Val D.
Issue Date
1993
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26
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|Either the federal constitutional definition of religion is of vital, continuing interest to the law, or someone is paying scholars a lot of money to write about it. The courts have been less interested. In fact, only a few United States Supreme Court cases have mentioned the issue, and none have addressed it directly.|The discussion of the definition of religion in this Article illustrates in some detail the current, prevailing disagreement among scholars regarding the appropriate definition of religion. There is no consistent rationale for all the cases. If anything, the bulk of scholarship and case law leads to the conclusion that the task of defining religion is impossible. It is from the impossibility of this task that the central subject of this Article, the notion that those involved in allegedly religious activity, rather than courts, ought to define religion, gains strength...
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26 Creighton L. Rev. 1053 (1992-1993)
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Creighton University School of Law