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The Law of Church and State in America An online publication of this 5-volume work completed in 1997 by the Rev. Dean M. Kelley, long-time Director for Religious and Civil Liberties of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. This work is structured around important functions or aspects of the religious enterprise. Volume I deals with the autonomy of religious bodies, that is, their rights to manage their own internal affairs. Volume II deals with the outreach activities of religious bodies as they relate to the external world. Volume III treats of the inculcation of the faith by or on behalf of religious bodies (and a wide array of educational practices pertaining to religion in public schools). Volume IV studies the patterns of protecting the practice of the faith by the faithful in the secular world. And Volume V focuses on state shelters for religion— institutionalized provisions for “protecting” religion, such as legal exemptions (as from taxation), governmental “proprietaries” (such as chaplaincies), folk-practices of civil religion or the public cultus that become enmeshed with state action, and the perplexities of governmental efforts to define (or to avoid defining) “religion” and “church.” Each of the chapter is in pdf format. Introduction Vol. 1 Autonomy of Religious Bodies Vol. 2 Outreach Vol. 3 Inculcation Vol. 4 Practice Vol. 5 Shelters |
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Queens Federation of Churches | http://www.QueensChurches.org/ | Last Updated March 2, 2015 |