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Mischa Honeck's Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century.The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The core values of the organization have, since its founding in 1910, shaped what it means to be an American boy and man. As Honeck shows, those masculine values had implications that extended far beyond the borders of the United States. Writing the global back into the history of one of the country's largest youth organizations, Our Frontier Is the World details how the BSA operated as a vehicle of empire from the Progressive Era up to the countercultural moment of the 1960s. American boys and men wearing the Scout uniform never simply hiked local trails to citizenship; they forged ties with their international peers, camped in foreign lands, and started troops on overseas military bases. Scouts traveled to Africa and even sailed to icy Antarctica, hoisting the American flag and standing as models of loyalty, obedience, and bravery. Through scouting America's complex engagements with the world were presented as honorable and playful masculine adventures abroad.Innocent fun and earnest commitment to doing a good turn, of course, were not the whole story. Honeck argues that the good-natured Boy Scout was a ready means for soft power abroad and gentle influence where American values, and democratic capitalism, were at stake. In other instances the BSA provided a pleasant cover for imperial interventions that required coercion and violence. At Scouting's global frontiers the stern expression of empire often lurked behind the smile of a boy.

Imperialism --- Scouting (Youth activity) --- Social aspects --- History. --- Political aspects --- Boy Scouts of America --- empire, youth, boyhood, international relations.

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"In recent years, the United States has witnessed a number of high-profile court cases involving religion, forcing Americans to grapple with questions regarding the relationship between religion and law. This volume maps the contemporary interplay of religion and law within the study of American religions. What rights are protected by the Constitution's free exercise clause? What are the boundaries of religion, and what is the constitutional basis for protecting some religious beliefs but not others? What characterizes a religious-studies approach to religion and law today? What is gained by approaching law from the vantage point of religious studies, and what does attention to the law offer back to scholars of religion? Religion, Law, USA considers all these questions and more. Each chapter considers a specific keyword in the study of religion and law, such as "conscience," "establishment," "secularity," and "personhood." Contributors consider specific case studies related to each term, and then expand their analyses to discuss broader implications for the practice and study of American religion"--Back cover.

Religion and state --- Freedom of religion --- Religion and law --- USA --- United States. --- AI. --- Blackpentecostalism. --- Boy Scouts of America v Dale. --- Boy Scouts of America. --- Brown v Board. --- Burwell v Hobby Lobby. --- Catholicism. --- Constitution. --- Dred Scott v Sandford. --- Elk Grove Unified School District. --- Employment Division v Smith. --- Everson v Board of Education. --- First Amendment. --- Gloucester County School Board v GG. --- Hobby Lobby. --- Lawrence v Texas. --- Little Sisters of the Poor. --- Muslim ban. --- Native Americans. --- Nomos and Narrative. --- Page Law. --- Pledge of Allegiance. --- Protestantism. --- Roe v Wade. --- Supreme Court. --- Taíno. --- Trump v Hawaii. --- US legal history. --- US v Seeger. --- abortion. --- amicus curiae. --- artificial intelligence. --- artificial persons. --- autonomous cars. --- civil rights. --- colonialism. --- comparison. --- conscientious objection. --- critical race theory. --- doctrine of discovery. --- ethics. --- free exercise. --- gay rights. --- heterosexuality. --- homosexuality. --- legal subjectivity. --- morals. --- neutrality. --- pluralism. --- political theology. --- polygamy. --- privacy. --- racialization. --- recognition. --- religious freedom. --- religious refusal. --- secularism. --- secularization. --- settler colonialism. --- USA.