In today's episode of Interactions, we hear from Dr. Isaac Weiner and his Canopy Forum article "Secular Corporations, Religious Subjects" about the interesting question religious corporations pose for law and religion.
What is a religious corporation? That's the question everyone would like to answer, seeing as religious corporations are extremely powerful, possessing certain exemptions in U.S. law. Over the past decade, a number of high-profile U.S. Supreme Court decisions have made this term all the more crucial to define.
"Strikingly, organizations often find greater success than an individual person would when seeking protection under the law for their religious rights of conscience," explains Dr. Weiner.
All the more reason, then, to define what a "religious corporation" is.
But what if that's impossible? What if, in some sense, all corporations are somehow religious?
When drawing a bright line between "religious" and "non-religious" proves unsustainable, how do we focus on making all collective formations worth building, sustaining, and protecting?
Find out in today's episode.
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