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  • Review of Nelson Tebbe, Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age

    Author(s):
    Adam McDuffie (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Religious Studies
    Subject(s):
    Religion, Law
    Item Type:
    Book review
    Tag(s):
    Law and Religion, Religious Freedom, Nelson Tebbe
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... through in his insistence that legal decisions regarding matters of law and religion cannot be considered irrefutable ...

  • The Problem with the Peace Cross: American Legion v American Humanist Association and the Power of Courts to Shape Societal Memory

    Author(s):
    Adam McDuffie (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Religious Studies
    Subject(s):
    Religion, Law, Memory, History
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Law and religion, civil religion, United States Supreme Court, World War I, monuments
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... at Emory University, where he works as a researcher at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion ...

  • Afterword to Russell Sandberg, ed., Leading Works in Law and Religion

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Subject(s):
    Law, Religion, History, Human rights
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Law and Religion, Global Human Rights
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    ... Afterword to Russell Sandberg, ed., Leading Works in Law and Religion ...
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... ’ brightest new academic star in the field of Law and Religion study -- much to the delight of us veterans ...

  • The Metaphorical Bridge Between Law and Religion

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Subject(s):
    Law, Religion, Jurisprudence
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Robert F. Cochran Jr., Metaphors, Steven Winter, Robert Cover, George Lakoff, Law and Religion, Legal theory
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    ... The Metaphorical Bridge Between Law and Religion ...
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... Bridge Between Law and Religion John Witte, Jr.* Abstract This Article explores the role ...

  • Historical Foundations and Enduring Fundamentals of American Religious Freedom

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Subject(s):
    Law, Religion
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    First Amendment, United States Supreme Court, John Adams, James Madison, Law and Religion, Religious Freedom
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... of Law and Religion, Emory University. This brief article draws in part from John Witte, Jr. and Joel A ...

  • דיני החבלות בתורת התנאים

    Author(s):
    Amit Gvaryahu (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Late Antiquity, Textual Scholarship
    Subject(s):
    Biblical interpretation, Law, Ancient, Law, Medieval
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    midrash, mishnah, Law and Religion, Talmud, Midrash, and Rabbinics, Ancient and medieval law
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    ... law and religion ...

  • The Last American Establishment: Massachusetts, 1780-1833

    Author(s):
    Justin Latterell, John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Subject(s):
    Law, Religion, United States, History
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Religious Liberty, Establishment of Religion, Covenant, Constitution, John Adams, Law and Religion, Church and State, American history
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    ... law and religion ...

  • Ishmael’s Bane: The Sin and Crime of Illegitimacy Reconsidered

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2003
    Subject(s):
    Canon law
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Adoption, equal protection, Law and religion, Bastard(y), Illegitimacy, History of common law
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... INTRODUCTION Sex has long excited an intimate union between law and religion in the Christian West. Western ...

  • Between Sanctity and Depravity: Law and Human Nature in Martin Luther’s Two Kingdoms

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2003
    Subject(s):
    Law, History, Theology, Human rights
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Martin Luther, Religious Freedom, Decalogue, Law and Religion, Protestant Reformation, Legal history
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... and integration of these reforms in Luther's famous theory of the two kingdoms. Keywords: Law and Religion ...

  • That Serpentine Wall of Separation

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2003
    Subject(s):
    Constitutional law, Law, History, Catholic Church
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Thomas Jefferson, Anti-Catholicism, Everson v. Board of Education, Law and Religion, First Amendment, Establishment Clause, Wall of Separation, Legal history, Catholicism
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... , 514. Cloth, $49.95 1 Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Director of Law and Religion Program ...

  • Law and Legal Theory

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2003
    Subject(s):
    Law, Enlightenment
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Papal Revolution, Legal Ritual, Religious Dimensions of Law, Legal Dimensions of Religion, Concepts of Law, Law and Religion, Protestant Reformation
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... ; Concepts of Law; Law and Religion; Greece; Rome; Papal Revolution; Protestant Reformation; Enlightenment ...

  • From Establishment to Freedom of Public Religion

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2004
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Wall of Separation, United States Constitution, Law and religion, First Amendment, Religious Freedom, Religious Establishment, Public Religion
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... 1 Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Director of Law and Religion Program, and Director of Center ...

  • Intelligent Design v. Evolution: Both Right and Left Misguided in Fight

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2005
    Item Type:
    Newspaper article
    Tag(s):
    Law and religion, Intelligent design, Scopes Trial, Evolution
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... Scopes case was a storm signal of many battles to come between law and religion and religion and science ...

  • Facts and Fictions About the History of Separation of Church and State

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2006
    Subject(s):
    Theology, Jurisprudence
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Separationism, establishment, free exercise, American founding, Law and religion, church and state, First Amendment
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... history of American law. Keywords: law, religion, theology, church and state, separationism ...

  • The Perils of Celibacy: Clerical Celibacy and Marriage in Early Protestant Perspective

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2006
    Subject(s):
    Protestantism
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Sex, lust, sexual sin, Johann Apel, Martin Luther, Law and religion, celibacy, clerical pedophilia, married preists
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    ... law and religion ...

  • Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother? Child Marriage and Parental Consent in John Calvin’s Geneva

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2006
    Subject(s):
    Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Geneva, Decalogue, Parental Consent, Child Abuse, 1546 Marriage Ordinance, Law and religion, Parents, Children, Marriage, John Calvin
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge ...

  • Marriage Contracts, Liturgies, and Properties in Reformation Geneva

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2007
    Subject(s):
    Church history, Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Geneva, marital property, dowry, inheritance, annulment, Law and religion, Marriage law, Marital contract, John Calvin
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    ... law and religion ...

  • Introduction: The Foundations and Frontiers of Religious Liberty

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2007
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Religious discrimination, religious equality, Law and religion, Religious Liberty, United Nations
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    ... Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory ...

  • Brett T. Wilmot and John Witte, Jr. God’s Joust, God’s Justice; Conversations in Religion and Theology (17 October 2007)

    Author(s):
    Brett T. Wilmot, John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Subject(s):
    Theology, Politics and government, Secularism, Liberalism
    Item Type:
    Online publication
    Tag(s):
    First Amendment, constitution, John Witte, Law and Religion, Politics
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    ... law and religion ...
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    ... ://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1479-2214.2007.00121.x God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western ...

  • The Rights and Limits of Proselytism in the New Religious World Order

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2008
    Subject(s):
    Human rights
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, baptism, conversion, Law and religion, proselytism, international law
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    ... , eds., Laws on Religion and the State in Post-Communist Europe (Leuven: Peeters, 2004). 16 ...

  • Prophets, Priests, and Kings of Liberty: John Milton and the Reformation of Rights and Liberties in England

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2008
    Subject(s):
    Milton, John, 1608-1674, Reformation, England
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Marriage, Anglicanism, Presbyterianism, English Revolution, Law and religion, Family Law, Religious Liberty, Separation of Church and State, John Milton, English Reformation
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    ... for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University. This Article is an expanded version of chapter 4 of JOHN ...

  • ’Fairer Still the Woodlands’: Mapping the Free Exercise Forest, Review of Kent Greenawalt, Religion and the Constitution 1: Free Exercise and Fairness (2006)

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2008
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Religious Accommodation, Exemptions, Employment Division v. Smith, Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), Free Exercise of Religion, Kent Greenawalt, First Amendment, Law and Religion, Religious Freedom
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    ... Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University. 2 ...

  • Rechte, Widerstand und Revolution in westlicher Tradition: frühe protestantische Grundlangen

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2010
    Subject(s):
    Human rights, Protestantism, Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Theodore Beza, Tyranny, Subjective Rights, Covenant, Contract Theory, Law and religion, Calvinism, John Calvin
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    ... . , The Reformation of Rights. Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism, Cambridge – New York 2007 ...

  • Rights, Resistance, and Revolution in the Western Tradition: Early Protestant Foundations

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2008
    Subject(s):
    Human rights, Protestantism, Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Theodore Beza, Tyranny, Resistance, Subjective rights, Contract theory, Law and religion, Calvinism, John Calvin
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    ... and Religion at Emory University. This article draws in part from my The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion ...

  • Keeping the Commandments

    Author(s):
    John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2009
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Establishment Clause, Pleasant Grove case, Law and Religion, First Amendment, Religious Symbols
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    ... the Commandments John Witte Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion Alonzo L. Mc ...

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