Tax Exemptions, Spaghetti, and the Devil: The Perils of Ambiguous Limitations on Religion and a Proposed Definition for Legally Acknowledged Systems of Faith

• Authors: Hyun Jai (Violet) Cho

Abstracts

EN

This paper will analyze the scope of what the United States legal system as well as their international counterparts recognize and therefore, define as religion (part 2), to develop an argument supporting the potential need for limitations on unorthodox religions in the modern era (part 3) as exemplified in the instances of the following: the practice of LaVeyan Satanism, Scientology, and Pastafarianism (part 4). For the purposes of specificity, the following analysis will focus on the United States government and federal courts’ opinions regarding the topic at hand.

Keywords

EN

religion; freedom; speech; discrimination; governmental advantage; US constitutional law

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Krakowski Instytut Prawa Karnego Fundacja
• Journal: Constitutional Review
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 61-82

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Hyun Jai (Violet) Cho

• https://orcid.org/0009000085156167

References

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• Henderson B., The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, New York City, New York 2006.
• Hubbard R.L., The Science of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior, Los Angeles, California, 1990.
• What is Scientology, https://www.scientology.org/what-is-scientology/?link=side_wis#slide6 >, access: 10 October 2023.

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/25442031PKO.23.017.18564

Biblioteka Nauki

60937616