Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Publication Information
33 Stud. Christian Ethics 194 (2020).
Abstract
A crucial, but often overlooked, dimension of the human and constitutional right to religious freedom is the autonomy of religious institutions, associations and societies with respect to matters of governance, doctrine, formation and membership. Although the Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed this autonomy in the context of American constitutional law, it is vulnerable, and even under threat, for a variety of reasons, including a general decline in the health of civil society and mediating associations and a crisis of confidence and authority caused by clerical sexual abuse and churches’ failure to respond to it.
Recommended Citation
Richard W. Garnett,
Religious Freedom and the Churches: Contemporary Challenges in the United States Today,
33 Stud. Christian Ethics 194 (2020)..
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/1872
Comments
This article is based on remarks presented at a conference, ‘Is Religious Freedom under Threat? Trans-Atlantic Perspectives’, sponsored by the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics & Public Life and Emory University’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion. The event took place at Christ Church, Oxford on 23-25 May 2018.