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Fundamentalism in American religion and law : = Obama's challenge to patriarchy's threat to democracy /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fundamentalism in American religion and law :/ David A.J. Richards.
Reminder of title:	Obama's challenge to patriarchy's threat to democracy /
remainder title:	Fundamentalism in American Religion & Law
Author:	Richards, David A. J.,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 313 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Constitutional law - United States. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511676031
ISBN:	9780511676031 (ebook)

Fundamentalism in American religion and law : = Obama's challenge to patriarchy's threat to democracy /
Richards, David A. J.,

Fundamentalism in American religion and law :Obama's challenge to patriarchy's threat to democracy /Fundamentalism in American Religion & LawDavid A.J. Richards. - 1 online resource (x, 313 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : defining the problem -- The progressive recognition of human rights under American constitutional law -- The fundamentalism of constitutional originalism -- The motivations of constitutional fundamentalism -- Fundamentalism in Roman Catholicism -- Fundamentalism among Protestants -- Mormon fundamentalism -- Patriarchal roots of constitutional fundamentalism -- Fundamentalism in religion and law : a critical overview -- Conclusion : patriarchy as the American dilemma : facing the problem of fundamentalism at home and abroad.

Why, from Reagan to George Bush, have fundamentalists in religion and in law (originalists) exercised such political power and influence in the United States? Why has the Republican Party forged an ideology of judicial appointments (originalism) hostile to abortion and gay rights? Why and how did Barack Obama distinguish himself among Democratic candidates not only by his opposition to the Iraq war but by his opposition to originalism? This book argues that fundamentalism in both religion and law threatens democratic values and draws its appeal from a patriarchal psychology still alive in our personal and political lives and at threat from the constitutional developments since the 1960s. The argument analyzes this psychology (based on traumatic loss in intimate life) and resistance to it (based on the love of equals). Obama's resistance to originalism arises from his developmental history as a democratic, as opposed to patriarchal, man who resists the patriarchal demands on men and women that originalism enforces - in particular, the patriarchal love laws that tell people who and how and how much they may love.

ISBN: 9780511676031 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

573274
Constitutional law
--United States.

LC Class. No.: KF4551 / .R53 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 342.7308/52

Fundamentalism in American religion and law : = Obama's challenge to patriarchy's threat to democracy /
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