The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America
The Spirit of the Law “explores the tension between the spirit filled and the law-bound in American society” (p. x). Gordon uses the well-known term the “spirit of the law” not in its usual sense of a law's presumed purpose, but to refer to those “spirit-filled” religious believers whose intera...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2010, Volume: 52, Issue: 4, Pages: 752-754 |
| Review of: | The Spirit of the Law (Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2010) (Evans, Bette Novit)
The spirit of the law (Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2010) (Evans, Bette Novit) |
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| Summary: | The Spirit of the Law “explores the tension between the spirit filled and the law-bound in American society” (p. x). Gordon uses the well-known term the “spirit of the law” not in its usual sense of a law's presumed purpose, but to refer to those “spirit-filled” religious believers whose interactions with the law are occasioned by the commands of their faith. Acting not on legal doctrines, but on “popular constitutionalism,” they are confident that the constitution should protect their religiously inspired acts and are willing to go to court to prove it. In doing so, these religious actors have shaped the interpretation of the written constitution, and those interpretations have, in turn, shaped the American religious landscape. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csq122 |