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

Publication date: 09.2023

Przegląd Konstytucyjny, 2023, Issue 3 (2023), pp. 61 - 82

https://doi.org/10.4467/25442031PKO.23.017.18564

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Hyun Jai (Violet) Cho
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8515-6167 Orcid
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Tax Exemptions, Spaghetti, and the Devil: The Perils of Ambiguous Limitations on Religion and a Proposed Definition for Legally Acknowledged Systems of Faith

Abstract

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.

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Information: Przegląd Konstytucyjny, 2023, Issue 3 (2023), pp. 61 - 82

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

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

English:

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

Published at: 09.2023

Article status: Open

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Percentage share of authors:

Hyun Jai (Violet) Cho (Author) - 100%

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