Title
Religiously Affiliated Health Care Providers: Legal Structures and Transformations
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
January 2006
Recommended Citation
Donald H.J. Hermann, Religiously Affiliated Health Care Providers: Legal Structures and Transformations, in Religious Organizations in the United States, A Study of Legal Identity, Religious Freedom and the Law (Carolina Publishing Company, 2004)
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Comments
This book examines the legal structures within which religious organizations conduct their activities. The legal structures of religious organizations encompass not only their corporate organizations, but the many ways employment, property ownership, decisions regarding forms of ministry, and participation in society define a particular instiution. The authors, from a variety of practicing, religious, and scholarly backgrounds, provide a range of perspectives ? both practical and theoretical ? on these issues. The book fills a void in the current resources, providing a detailed description of policies, identity, and the effect of legal rules on church structures.