caa a22 4500 477122388 CHVBK 20180405111640.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02197251 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02197251 Mazur Eric Department of Religious Studies, University of California, 93106-3130, Santa Barbara, California aut Constitutional authority and prospects for social justice for high-tension religious communities [Elektronische Daten] [Eric Mazur] By regulating religious practice, the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment challenges the authority of religious communities who may not have adopted American pluralism in favor of their own religious particularism. While the power of the Constitution is manifested in physical modes, its historic symbolic and socially constructed meaning elevates it as a competing transcending authority that challenges religious communities. Often labeled American civil religion, this authority either coerces non-mainstream religious communities to adopt modes of religious expression that mirror those of the dominant culture, or requires them to adopt a strategy for coping with its overwhelming social and political power. The Constitution's mechanism for guaranteeing religious free exercise thus serves as a method to limit religious particularism by coercing limited cultural orthodoxy through legal orthopraxy. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996 constitutional authority nationallicence religious freedom nationallicence civil religion nationallicence religious minorities nationallicence Social Justice Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 9/3(1996-09-01), 259-280 0885-7466 9:3<259 1996 9 11211 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02197251 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02197251 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mazur Eric Department of Religious Studies, University of California, 93106-3130, Santa Barbara, California aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Justice Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 9/3(1996-09-01), 259-280 0885-7466 9:3<259 1996 9 11211 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer