The Future of Tradition by Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff

Author:Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff [Sheleff, Leon Shaskolsky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Political Science
ISBN: 9781136326158
Google: NU60AAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-05T15:57:30+00:00

NOTES

1. See, for instance, Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Scribner's, 1958). For a critique ofWeber's emphasis on rationality in the modern world, sec Leon Sheleff, Social Cohesion and Legal Coercion: A Critique of Weber, Durkheim, and Marx (Atlanta, GA, and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), Part 1, Weber Revisited’.

2. Robert Bellah, ‘Civil Religion in America’, Daedalus 96 (1967), p. 1. See also in Bellah, Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional World (New York: Harper & Row, 1970).

3. Aidan Southall, White Strangers and Their Religion in East Africa and Madagascar’, in W. Shack and E. Skinner (eds), Strangers in African Societies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979), pp. 235–6.

4. See, for example, Robert Berkhofer, Salvation and the Savage: An Analysis of Protestant Missions and American Indian Response 1787–1862 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1985).

5. See, for example, James Mooney, The Ghost Dance Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966).

6. See, for instance, J.H. McGregor (ed.), The Wounded Knee Massacre from the Viewpoint of the Sioux (Rapid City, SD: Fenwyn Press, 1940).

7. On peyote use in religious ceremonies, see D. Aberle, The Peyote Religion Among the Navaho People (Chicago: Aldine, 1966); and Hazel Hertzberg, The Search for An American Indian Identity: Modem Pan-Indian Movements (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1971), Part III, Chapter 10, ‘The Peyote Cult’; p. 239 and Chapter 11, ‘The Native American Church’, p. 259. See also James Plotkin, Menomini Peyotism (Philadelphia, PA: The American Philosophical Society, 1952).

8. S.J. Res. 102, Aug. 11, 1978, Pub. L. No. 95–341, 92 Stat. 469; codified in part 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1996.

9. The American Indian Religious Freedom Act is known also by its acronym, AIRFA

10. For broad discussion, see special issue of Cultural Survival Quarterly devoted to topic of American Indian Religious Freedom’, 19 (1996), Winter issue.

11. Reynolds v. United States, 98 US 145 (1879); and Davis v. Beason, 133 US 333 (1890).

12. Walker v. Superior Court (1988), 47 Cal. 3d 112.

13. Braunfield v. Brown, 366 US 599 (1961).

14. Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586 (1940).

15. Goldman v. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, 475 US 503 (1986).

16. For general discussion of the issues involved, see Leon Sheleff, ‘“Thou Shalt not be too Different”: Civil Rights, Social Control and Deviant Religious Practices in the United States’, Israel Yearbook on Human Rights 23 (1994), p. 193.

17. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Bamett, 319 US 624 (1943).

18. Legislation in 1988, shortly after the Goldman decision, allowed for slight deviations from the dress code for religious reasons, provided that they were not ostentatiously displayed. This was precisely the situation in the Goldman case, yet the Court, at that stage, gave precedence to the army dress code.

19. See the discussion in Chapter 17, ‘Family Matters’.

20. See discussion in Alison Dundes Renteln, ‘Is the Cultural Defense Detrimental to the Health of Children?’ Law and Anthropology: International Yearbook for Legal Anthropology 7 (1994), p. 27.

21. National Prohibition Act, Title II, a3, 41 Stat. 308. The act gave practical expression to

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