
Animal Sacrifice and Religious Freedom
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye V. City of Hialeah
David M. O'Brien(Author)
University Press of Kansas
Will be published approx. on 10. April 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-7006-1303-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Santeria religion of Cuba - the Way of the Saints - mixes West African Yoruba culture with Catholicism. Similar to Haitian voodoo, Santeria has long practiced animal sacrifice in certain rites. But when Cuban immigrants brought those rituals to Florida, local authorities were suddenly confronted with a controversial situation of the regulation of public health and morality against religious freedom. After Ernesto Pichardo established a Santeria church in Hialeah in the 1980s, the city of Hialeah responded by passing ordinances banning ritual animal sacrifice. Although on the surface those ordinances seemed general in intent, they were clearly aimed at Pichardo's church. When Pichardo subsequently sued the city, a federal court ruled in the latter's favor, in effect privileging the regulation of public health and morality over the church's free exercise of its religion. The U.S. Supreme Court heard Pichardo's appeal in 1993 and unanimously decided that the city had overstepped its bounds in targeting this particular religious group; however, the court was sharply divided regarding the basis of its decision.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Kansas
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
256 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7006-1303-8 (9780700613038)
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David M. O'Brien's other books include Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics, now in its sixth edition, and a two-volume casebook, Constitutional Law and Politics, now in its fifth edition.