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Links
to Religious Liberty Resources
from the Brooklyn Council of Churches
GENERAL RESOURCES ACADEMIC
RESOURCES ADVOCACY
ORGANIZATIONS
Organizations
Signing the Consensus Statement on
Religious Liberty, Public Education,
and the Future of American Democracy
General
Resources
Center for Studies on New
Religions – Features an archive of extraordinary depth, cataloged by topic,
nation and over a hundred NRMs. This is an international forum with most of the
items in English.
FindLaw
— Searchable Database of US Supreme Court Decisions since 1893
First
Amendment Center of the Freedom Forum
Foundation
for Religious Freedom
The Law of Church and State in America by Dean M. Kelley – An online publication of this 5-volume work completed in 1997 by the Rev. Dean M. Kelley, long-time Director for Religious and Civil Liberties of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. This work is structured around important functions or aspects of the
religious enterprise. Volume I deals with the autonomy of religious bodies, that is,
their rights to manage their own internal affairs. Volume II deals with the outreach
activities of religious bodies as they relate to the external world. Volume III treats of
the inculcation of the faith by or on behalf of religious bodies (and a wide array of
educational practices pertaining to religion in public schools). Volume IV studies the
patterns of protecting the practice of the faith by the faithful in the secular world. And
Volume V focuses on state shelters for religion— institutionalized provisions for
“protecting” religion, such as legal exemptions (as from taxation), governmental
“proprietaries” (such as chaplaincies), folk-practices of civil religion or the public
cultus that become enmeshed with state action, and the perplexities of governmental
efforts to define (or to avoid defining) “religion” and “church.”
Legal
Information Institute – Cornell Law School sponsors this user friendly
website to assist those conducting legal research in many areas of the law.
Library
of Congress – A superb exhibition on American religious liberty which
focuses on the colonial and constitutional periods of American history.
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
RJ&L
Religious Liberty Archive – View Supreme Court cases and commentaries,
state statutes, and important historical documents and speeches relevant to religious
freedom in the United States.
RLUIPA
– Prepared by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Office of the General Counsel
U.S. Department of Justice - Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination
U.S.
Department of State - International Religious Freedom
U.S.
Department of State - International Religious Freedom 2005 Report
Academic
Resources
J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies (Baylr University)
Journal of Law and Religion (Hamline University School of Law)
ReligionLaw:
Law & Religion Issues for Law Academics – A listserv moderated
by Eugene Volokh at UCLA - Use this link to register for the list.
Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion
University of Virginia – Links to many Religious Freedom organizations
Advocacy
Organizations
Alliance Defense Fund
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
American Center for Law and Justice
American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU
Religious Liberty Section
American
Jewish Congress
American Jewish Committee
American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Anti-Defamation League
Baptist Joint Committee
Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Catholic
League for Religious and Civil Rights
Christian Legal Society
Ethics and Public Policy Institute
Family Resource Council
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
Home School Legal Defense Association
International
Association for Religious Freedom
International Coalition for Religious Freedom
Liberty Magazine
People for the American Way Foundation
Religious Action Center
Rutherford Institute
Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression
Organizations
Signing the Consensus Statement on
Religious Liberty, Public Education,
and the Future of American Democracy
American Academy of Religion
American Association of School Administrators
American Center for Law and Justice
American Federation of Teachers
American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Congress
Americans
United for Separation of Church and State
Anti-Defamation League
Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development
Baptist Joint Committee on Public
Affairs
Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Catholic
League for Religious and Civil Rights
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Coalition for the
Community of Reason
Council on Islamic Education
Christian Coalition
Christian Educators Association
International
Christian Legal Society
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints
Department of Education of the
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
First Amendment Center
General Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists
Islamic Society of North America
National Association of Elementary School Principals
National Association of Evangelicals
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Conference for Community and Justice
National Council for the Social Studies
National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
National Education Association
National PTA
National School Boards Association
People for the American Way
Phi Delta Kappa
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
GENERAL
RESOURCES ACADEMIC
RESOURCES ADVOCACY
ORGANIZATIONS
Organizations
Signing the Consensus Statement on
Religious Liberty, Public Education,
and the Future of American Democracy
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