ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION & THE LAW IN AMERICA

This informative, easy-to-use reference work covers a wide range of legal issues that affect the roles of religion and law in American society. Extensive A–Z entries provide coverage of key court decisions, case studies, concepts, individuals, religious groups, organizations, and agencies shaping religion and law in today's society.

Profiles and Primary Documents

A

• Abington School District v. Schempp
• Abolition
• Abortion
• Accommodation of Religious Belief
• Accommodationist (or Nonpreferentialist)
• ACLU Nebraska Foundation v. City of Plattsmouth
• Adoption
• Adultery
• Aguilar v. Felton
• Allegheny County v. American Civil Liberties Union
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Americans United for Separation of Church and State
• Amish Exception
• Anti-Defamation League
• Asylum
• Atheism

B

• Baker v. Fales (Mass. 1820) (the Dedham Case)
• Bankruptcy
• Becker Amendment
• Belief-Conduct Dichotomy
• Bible Distribution at Public Schools
• Bible, Reading of
• Bill of Rights
• Black Church
• Blaine Amendment
• Blasphemy
• Blood Transfusions
• Board of Education v. Allen
• Board of Education v. Grumet
• Board of Education v. Mergens
• Board of Trustees v. McCreary
• Bob Jones University v. United States (U.S. 1983)
• Boerne, City of v. Flores
• Bowen v. Kendrick
• Bowen v. Roy
• Bradfield v. Roberts
• Braunfeld v. Brown
• Bronx Household of Faith v. Board of Education for the City of N.Y.
• Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson

C

• California Missions Preservation Act
• Canon Law
• Cantwell v. Connecticut
• Capital Punishment
• Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany v. Serio
• Cermonial Deism
• Chaplains
• Charitable Choice Provision
• Charitable Corporation
• Charitable Deduction
• Charitable Immunity
• Charitable Trust
• Charity
• Child Benefit Theory
• Child Custody
• Christian Legal Society
• Christian Nation
• Christian Scientist Church
• Church and State
• Church Arson
• Church Autonomy Disputes
• Church Autonomy Doctrine
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon Church)
• Church of Latter-Day Saints vs. Amos
• Church Records
• Church Tribunals
• Civic Religion
• Clergy
• Clergy, Benefit of
• Clergy Malpractice
• Clergy Sex Abuse
• Collective Bargaining Agreements and Religion
• Committee for Public Education and Liberty v. Regan
• Common Law and Christianity
• Conscientious Objector
• Contraception
• Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
• Criminal Conduct
• Cult
• Culture Wars
• Cutter v. Wilkinson

D

• Davis v. Beason
• Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
• Deprogramming Cases
• Disestablishment
• Divisiveness Doctrine
• Divorce
• Doremus v. Board of Education
• Drugs and Religion
• Due Process Clause

E

• Ecclesiastical Corporation
• Ecclesiastical Court
• Ecclesiastical Disputes
• Ecclesiastical Law
• Edwards v. Aguillard
• Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow
• Employment Division v. Smith
• Endorsement Test
• Engel v. Vitale
• Enlightment
• Epperson v. Arkansas
• Established Church
• Establishment Clause
• Eternal Law
• Evangelical Manifesto
• Everson v. Board of Education
• Excessive Entaglement

F

• Faith-Healing
• Faith-Based Initiatives
• Family Law
• Federalism
• Fetal Rights
• First Amendment (U.S. Constitution)
• Flaug Salute Ceremony
• Foreign Policy
• Frazee v. Illinois Department of Employment Security
• Free Exercise Clause
• Freedom of Religion
• Fundamental Right, Religious Freedom As A

G

• Gillette v. United States
• Goldman v. Weinberger
• Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao Do Vegetal
• Gonvernment Aid to Private Schools
• Government Aid to Religious Institutions
• Grand Rapids School District v. Ball
• Grassley Investigation of Televangelists

H

• Hate Crimes
• Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness
• Hernandez v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
• Holiday Displays
• Home Schooling
• Homosexuality
• Human Rights Campaign

I

• In God We Trust
• International Religious Freedom Act of 1998

J

• Jehovah's Witnesses
• Jimmy Swaggart Ministries v. Board of Equalization
• Johnson v. Robinson
• Jones v. Wolf
• Jonestown
• Judaism
• Judicial Appointments and Religion
• Judicial Deference and Religion
• Jury Service and Religion

K

• Kennewick Man Case

L

• Larkin v. Grendel's Den, Inc.
• Larson v. Valente
• Lemon v. Kurtzman
• Levitt v. Committee for Public Education
• Lynch v. Donnelly
• Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association

M

• James Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments
• Marsh v. Chambers
• Maryland Toleration Act (1649)
• Massachusetts Bay Colonial Charters (1629, 1691)
• McCollum v. Board of Education
• McCreary County v. ACLU
• McDaniel v. Paty
• Medical Treatment
• Military Chaplains
• Minersville School District v. Gobitis
• Ministerial Exemption
• Moment of Silence
• Moment of Silence Cases
• Mormon Cases
• Mueller v. Allen
• Muslim Charities
• Mutual Abstinence

N

• Native American Religions
• Natural Law
• Negligence and Religious Organizations
• Neutrality Standard
• New Religious Movement (NRM)
• Nonprofit Corporation
• Norwood v. Harrison

O

• O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz
• Original Intent

P

• Pagans/Wiccans
• People for the American Way/People for the American Way Foundation
• Pharmacists Conscience Clause
• Pierce v. Society of Sisters
• Place of Worship
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Polygamy
• Prisons and Prisoners
• Privacy
• Property Tax Exemption
• Proselytizing
• Prosperity Gospel
• Protestantism
• Public Forum
• Public Office
• Public School Curriculum
• Public School Facilities, Access of Religious Groups to
• Public Space and Religion

R

• Racial Discrimination, Based on Religion
• Registration of Religious Organizations
• Released-Time Programs
• Religion and Politics
• Religion, Definition of
• Religion in the Workplace Guidelines
• Religion Belief, Definition of
• Religious Belief, Sincerity and Truth of
• Religious Broadcasting
• Religious Colleges and Universities
• Religious Discrimination
• Religious Discrimination in Employment
• Religious Establishment
• Religious Exemptions
• Religious Expression
• Religious Freedom
• Religious Freedom Amendment (1997)
• Religious Freedom Restoration Act (1993)
• Religious Fundamentalism
• Religious Garb
• Religious Holidays, Government Celebration of
• Religious Instruction in Public Schools
• Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA)
• Religious Liberty
• Religious Liberty Protection Act
• Religious Oaths
• Religious Organization
• Religious Persecution
• Religious Pluralism
• Religious Property
• Religious Protection Legislation
• Religious Purposes
• Religious Solicitation, Regulation of
• Religious Symbols and Language
• Religious Terrorism
• Religious Tests
• Reynolds v. United States
• Roman Catholic Church

S

• Same-Sex Marriage
• School Choice
• School Prayer
• Scientology
• Scopes Trial
• Separationist
• September 11th Attacks and Religion
• Shared-Time Programs
• Sherbert v. Verner
• Sikhs
• Social Gospel
• Staley v. Harris Co.
• Standing to Sue
• Stone v. Graham (U.S. 1980)
• Suicide
• Sunday Closing Laws

T

• Tax Exemptions and Religion
• Ten Commandments
• Texas Monthly, Inc. v. Bullock
• Textbooks and Religion
• Thomas v. Review Board
• Thornton v. Caldor
• Tilton v. Richardson
• Time, Place, and Manner Restrictions
• Tithes/Tithing
• Tony and Susan Alamo Foundation v. Secretary of Labor
• Torcaso v. Watkins
• Torts and Religious Organizations
• Tuition Tax Deductions or Credits

U

• Unemployment Compensation and Religion
• Unenumerated Rights
• United Nations Declarations and Resolutions on Religion
• United States v. Ballard
• United States v. Lee

V

• Vaccinations
• Van Orden v. Perry
• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom (1777)
• Vouchers

W

• "Wall of Separation" Metaphor
• Wallace v. Jaffree
• Walz v. Tax Commission
• Watson v. Jones
• Welfare Reform Act of 1996
• Welsh v. United States
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
• Widmar v. Vincent
• Wisconsin v. Yoder
• Witters v. Washington Department of Services for the Blind
• Wolman v. Walter
• Workplace Religious Freedom Act

Z

• Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District
• Zone of Permissible Accommodation
• Zoning
• Zorach v. Clausen

Primary Documents

• Introduction
• U.S. Historical Documents
• U.S. Federal Statutes
• United Nations Documents
• Historical Commentary
• Contemporary Commentary