religion
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)
Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
all aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief, unless an employer demonstrates that he is unable to reasonably accommodate to an employee's or prospective employee's religious observance or practice without undue hardship on the conduct of the employer's business.
Defined by the Supreme Court in Trans World Airlines Inc v. G Hardison International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, 432 U.S. 63 (1977).
United States Code
42 U.S.C. § 2000E — for the purposes of this subchapter
The term “religion” includes all aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief, unless an employer demonstrates that he is unable to reasonably accommodate to an employee's or prospective employee's religious observance or practice without undue hardship on the conduct of the employer's business.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
As used in constitutional provisions forbidding the "establishment of religion," the term means a particular system of faith and worship recognised and practised by a particular church, sect or denomination. See Reynolds v. U. St, 98 U. S. 149, 25 L. Ed. 244; Davis v. Beason, 133 US. 333, 10 Sup. Ct 299, 33 In Ed. 637; Board of Education v. Minor, 23 Ohio St. 241, 13 Am. Rep. 233.
— Religion, offenses against. In English law. They are thus enumerated by Black-stone:
(1) Apostasy;
(2) heresy;
(3) reviling the ordinances of the church ;
(4) blasphemy;
(5) profane swearing;
(6) conjuration or witchcraft;
(7) religious imposture;
(8) simony;
(9) profanation of the Lord's day ;
(10) drunkenness;
(11) lewdness. 4 Bl. Comm. 43.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
As used in Ohio Const, art. 1, § 7, declaring " religion, morality, and knowledge " to be essential to good government, means the religion of mankind, and not the religion of any class of men. Religion is not within the purview of human government. There is no such thing as "religion of state." Board of Education of Cincinnati v. Mmor, 23 Ohio St. 211. The constitutional provision for "free exercise of religious profession and worship, without discrimination," does not interdict all legislation connected with religion; much less does it avoid legislation tending to promote religion, or even to advance the