The Rhetoric of Church and State: A Critical Analysis of Religion Clause Jurisprudence,Used
The Rhetoric of Church and State: A Critical Analysis of Religion Clause Jurisprudence,Used

The Rhetoric of Church and State: A Critical Analysis of Religion Clause Jurisprudence,Used

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During the middle of the twentieth century, the religiously informed communitarianism that had guided the Supreme Courts decisions regarding the relationship between church and state was partially displaced by a new secular individualist discourse. In The Rhetoric of Church and State, Frederick Mark Gedicks argues that this partial and incomplete shift is the key to understanding why the Court has failedand continues today to failto provide a coherent doctrine on church/state separation.Gedicks suggests that the Supreme Courts inconsistent decisions mirror a divergence in American society between an increasingly secular public culture and the primarily devout private lives of the majority of Americans. He notes that while the Court is committed to principles of secular individualism, it has repeatedly endorsed government actions that violate those principlesactions that would be far more justifiable under the discourse of religious communitarianism. The impossibility of reconciling the two discourses leaves the Court no choice but to effaceoften implausiblythe religious nature of practices it deems permissible. Gedicks concludes that the road to a coherent religion clause doctrine lies neither in a return to religious communitarianism nor in its complete displacement by secular individualism, but in a yettobeidentified discourse that would attract popular support while protecting a meaningful measure of religious freedom.

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