Religious Freedom and the Churches: Contemporary challenges in the United States Today
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ArticlePublication details: May 2020Description: Pages 194-204ISSN: - 0953-9468
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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.
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