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Religions, Lifeways, Same Difference
2016
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences
A number of far-right politicians and conservatives in the United States continue to argue that the First Amendment's freedom of beliefdoes not apply to Islam because it is not a religion in the western sense of the term, but a way of life that includes politics. By providingdefinitions from both western sociologists of religion and conservative political lobbyists and think tanks, I show that mostexperts on religion in the United States define religion as a way of life that governs behavior in
doi:10.35632/ajiss.v33i1.230
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