Statutes (Religious Legal Instruments)

Laws passed by legislatures that bear on religion, such as the Act of Supremacy, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, the French law of 1905 on the separation of the churches and the state and the Places of Worship Act of India. An entry belongs here when its article presents an act of a legislature. The group page lists texts of the same legal kind together so that a reader can compare how religious authority and state power are put into writing.