Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) |
Series |
Ashgate inform series on minority religions and spiritual movements |
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Ashgate Inform series on minority religions and spiritual movements.
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Contents |
Courts, crusaders, and the media : the family international / Claire Borowik -- Scientology in Italy : Plagio and the twenty year legal saga / Massimo Introvigne -- The Order of the Solar Temple : from apocalypse to court / Jean-Francois Mayer -- The Mohan Singh case : what price confidentiality? / Philip Katz -- The resurrection of religion in the U.S. : the "sacred tea" cases, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the war on drugs / James T. Richardson and Jennifer Shoemaker -- Religion or sedition? : the domestic terrorism trial of the Hutaree, a Michigan-based Christian militia / Susan J. Palmer -- The Dang case in Belgium / Henri de Cordes -- How to know the truth : accommodating religious belief in the law of libel / Alistair Mullis and Andrew Scott -- Religious libel are the courts the right place for faith disputes? / Hardeep Singh -- The European Court of Human Rights, minority religions, and new versus original member states / Valerie Lykes and James T. Richardson -- Cults in court : jury decision-making and new religious movements / Jeffrey Pfeifer -- Parents' use of faith healing for their children implications for the legal system and measuring community sentiment / Monica Miller -- Muslims in the courtroom / Evelyn Maeder and Jeffrey Pfeifer |
Summary |
"New religious movements (NRMs) and other minority faiths have regularly been the focus of legal cases around the world in recent decades. This is the first book to focus on important aspects of the relationship of smaller faiths to the societies in which they function by using specific legal cases to examine social control efforts. The legal cases involve group leaders, a groups practices or alleged abuses against members and children in the group, legal actions brought by former members or third parties, attacks against such groups by outsiders including even governments, and libel and slander actions brought by religious groups as they seek to defend themselves. These cases are sometimes milestones in the relation between state authorities and religious groups."--Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Religious minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc
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Cults -- Law and legislation.
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Religion and state -- Cases
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Freedom of religion.
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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Cults -- Law and legislation
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Freedom of religion
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Religion and state
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Religious minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic book
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Richardson, James T., 1941- editor.
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Bellanger, François, editor.
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ISBN |
9781472428752 |
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1472428757 |
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9781472428769 |
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1472428765 |
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