Expanding Public Employee Religious Accommodation and Its Threat to Administrative Legitimacy

• Main Author: Szymalak, James N. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
• Subjects: Public policy.; Religion and politics.; Public administration.; Public Policy.; Politics and Religion.; Public Administration.

In the wake of same-sex marriage legalization, most religious conservatives realize that they now share a minority viewpoint on many social issues. Such change has forced those formerly trying to forestall social evolution to instead seek legal recusal from engaging in matters that conflict with the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Obligation to Accommodate
• 3. What Even Constitutes Religion?
• 4. Expanding Religious Accommodation
• 5. Applying the Heightened Standard
• 6. Challenges of an Expanded Obligation
• 7. Threatening Legitimacy.