Offense at your door : Roman Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, judicial review, and Cantwell v. Connecticut, 1938-1940

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dc.contributor.advisorGraber, Jennifer, 1973-en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberTweed, Thomas Aen
dc.creatorBatlan, Katharine M.en
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-13T20:44:01Zen
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T22:29:08Z
dc.date.available2015-11-13T20:44:01Zen
dc.date.available2018-01-22T22:29:08Z
dc.date.issued2014-05en
dc.date.submittedMay 2014en
dc.date.updated2015-11-13T20:44:01Zen
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dc.description.abstractCantwell v. Connecticut (1940) marked a new moment in religious liberties in the United States. In this case the Supreme Court nationalized free exercise of religion. While many legal scholars point to this case as important for precedents used in the arguments of subsequent cases, the context from which this case emerged was also important. I argue that Cantwell should also be studied for what it can tell us about religious conflict at the time. In Cantwell the Supreme Court of the United States incorporated the free exercise of religion to states, but in doing so it obscured the real religious tensions between Roman Catholics and Jehovah's Witnesses and local efforts to adjudicate those conflicts.en
dc.description.departmentReligious Studiesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2S04Qen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/32466en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectCantwell v. Connecticuten
dc.subjectSupreme Court of the United Statesen
dc.subjectRoman Catholicsen
dc.subjectJehovah's Witnessesen
dc.subjectReligionen
dc.subjectLawen
dc.subjectLocalen
dc.subjectIncorporationen
dc.subjectFree exerciseen
dc.titleOffense at your door : Roman Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, judicial review, and Cantwell v. Connecticut, 1938-1940en
dc.typeThesisen

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