Deconstructing the Religious Free Market
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Scholars have frequently alluded to the normative value of the religious free market fostered by the twin legal guarantees of the free exercise of religion and the absence of state establishment of religion. But given that the desirable normative interpretations of these two clauses differ widely, the nature of the resulting market is inevitably dependent on one’s choice of these contested interpretations. Similarly, the “entitlement to free competition” depends on the definition of “religion.” The present article deconstructs the religious free market into its legal components and discusses critically how the different interpretations and combinations of these legal components materially affect the resulting religious market.
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Thio Li-Ann, “Contentious Liberty: Regulating Religious Propagation in a Multi-Religious Secular Democracy”, Singapore J Legal Studies (2010), 484, 510; Stephen C. Berkwitz, “Religious Conflict and the Politics of Conversion in Sri Lanka” in Rosalind I.J. Hackett (ed.), Proselytization Revisited: Rights Talk, Free Markets and Culture Wars (Equinox 2008), 216.
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Deconstructing the Religious Free Market
In: Journal of Law, Religion and StateSearch for other papers by Jianlin Chen in
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Scholars have frequently alluded to the normative value of the religious free market fostered by the twin legal guarantees of the free exercise of religion and the absence of state establishment of religion. But given that the desirable normative interpretations of these two clauses differ widely, the nature of the resulting market is inevitably dependent on one’s choice of these contested interpretations. Similarly, the “entitlement to free competition” depends on the definition of “religion.” The present article deconstructs the religious free market into its legal components and discusses critically how the different interpretations and combinations of these legal components materially affect the resulting religious market.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 544 | 65 | 3 |
| Full Text Views | 195 | 1 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 49 | 2 | 0 |