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Contemporary Paganism, Carol Barner-Barry

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Carol Barner-Barry is a professor in the political science department. Her interests lie in biology and politics, law, and political psychology. Contemporary Paganism explores the legal bias in the United States against Paganism and other non-Christian religions. Using the Pagans as a case study, Barner-Barry shows how their experiences demonstrate that both the law affecting non-dominant religions and the judiciary that interprets this law are significantly biased in favor of the dominant religion, Christianity. This creates legal problems, as well as problems of intolerance, for religions with significantly different practices. Special attention is given to a series of Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Freedom of Religion Clause in terms of neutrality and interpreting the Establishment Clause loosely and its impact on non-dominant religions in the US.

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