Tag: Religion

  • Religious Freedom

    Religious Freedom in the United States Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the United States: Religious Freedom Although religious freedom has not generally been curtailed in the United States, Roman Catholics, Jews, and members of such unconventional Protestant groups as the Oneida […]

  • Religious Freedom

    Religious Freedom in the United States Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the United States: Religious Freedom Although religious freedom has not generally been curtailed in the United States, Roman Catholics, Jews, and members of such unconventional Protestant groups as the Oneida […]

  • Establishment Clause

    Establishment Clause in the United States Introduction to the Establishment Clause According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, three themes dominate recent Supreme Court decision making under the First Amendment’s establishment of religion clause. First, the Court has […]

  • Establishment Clause

    Establishment Clause in the United States Introduction to the Establishment Clause According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, three themes dominate recent Supreme Court decision making under the First Amendment’s establishment of religion clause. First, the Court has […]

  • Religious Law

    Religious law in the United States Religious law Table of Contents Religious law in general. Comparative religious law. Jurisprudence and religious law Bibliography and religious law Periodicals and religious law Annuals. Annuaires and religious law Monographic series […]

  • Religious Law

    Religious law in the United States Religious law Table of Contents Religious law in general. Comparative religious law. Jurisprudence and religious law Bibliography and religious law Periodicals and religious law Annuals. Annuaires and religious law Monographic series […]

  • Islam

    Islam in the United States Nation of Islam in relation to Crime and Race Nation of Islam is included in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (1), beginning with: The term Black Muslims refers to the Blacks in America who belong to the Lost and Found Nation of Islam in the West. The Nation of…

  • American Jewish Congress

    American Jewish Congress in the United States According to theEncyclopedia of the American Constitution: Formed originally in 1918 as a temporary confederation of Jewish organizations to propose a postwar program by the Jewish people for presentation at the Versailles Peace Conference, […]

  • Talmud

    Talmud in the United States Talmud (Aram. talmūd, instruction; connected with Heb. lāmad, to learn). The name given to the comprehensive compilation of laws and ceremonial regulations pertaining to Rabbinical Judaism together with the elaborate discussion of those laws and regulations. As […]

  • Midrash

    Midrash in the United States Midrash (Heb., from dārash, to seek, search). The general name given to the exposition of the Old Testament which, for about 1,500 years after the Exile, formed the centre of all mental activity both in and out of the schools, among the Jews. The prohibitions and […]

  • Gemara

    Gemara in United States Gemara, ge-mä’rȧ (Aram., complement) also transliterated Gemora, Gemarah or, less commonly, Gemorra. That portion of the two Talmuds, the Babylonian and the Jerusalem, containing the annotations, discussions, and amplifications of the Mishna, or Talmudical law, by the […]

  • Bible

    Bible in the United States Family Bible Definition A Bible containing a record of the births, marriages, and deaths of the members of a family. (1) Influence of the Bible in the United States In late 2004, Taegan Goddard wrote: According to a new Gallup poll, only about a third of […]

  • Surveys of the Legal Systems

    Surveys of the Legal Systems in the United States Religious and secular legal systems There is one great division between the religious and secular legal systems. There are few countries whose legal system is exclusively religious, while a number of countries have ‘dual’ systems in which […]

  • Jewish law

    Jewish law. Halakah in the United States Table of contents. Halakah Even ha-ezer law (General) H . oshen mishpat. law (General) Mishpat Ivri Bibliography Monographic series Legal education. Study and teaching General works The concept of Jewish law Sources of Jewish law […]

  • Amish

    Amish in the United States Introduction to Amish To the hordes of tourists who travel to Pennsylvania Dutch country each year to go to quilting bees and shop for crafts, the Gentle People, as the Amish are known, represent innocence. They are a people apart, removed in place and arrested in […]