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Author: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.425kg
ISBN: 9780691130583
ISBN 10: 0691130582
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 23 April 2007
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Language: English
Reviews
A smart-and in the present circumstances, sobering-little book. -- Christopher Caldwell Financial Times Sullivan's book has the great virtue of placing abstract legal dilemmas in the concrete realities of everyday life. -- R. Laurence Moore American Scholar Scholars or lay-people intrigued by the status of religion in contemporary developed nations will find Sullivan's study very useful. -- John M. McTaggart International Review of Modern Sociology Drawing on her expertise in law and religion, Sullivan argues that religious freedom in America is impossible... [She] succeed[s] in arguing that religious freedoms are not as free as one might think. Library Journal
Sullivan's examination of the judicial process is only one important aspect her book. The most important contribution is her discussion of the problems of how law defines religion and through its definition impedes religious liberty. --Bryan K. Fair, Journal of Law and Religion Drawing on her expertise in law and religion, Sullivan argues that religious freedom in America is impossible. . . . [She] succeed[s] in arguing that religious freedoms are not as free as one might think. --Library Journal Scholars or lay-people intrigued by the status of religion in contemporary developed nations will find Sullivan's study very useful. --John M. McTaggart, International Review of Modern Sociology Sullivan's book has the great virtue of placing abstract legal dilemmas in the concrete realities of everyday life. --R. Laurence Moore, American Scholar A smart-and in the present circumstances, sobering-little book. --Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times
A smart-and in the present circumstances, sobering-little book. -- Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times Sullivan's book has the great virtue of placing abstract legal dilemmas in the concrete realities of everyday life. -- R. Laurence Moore, American Scholar Scholars or lay-people intrigued by the status of religion in contemporary developed nations will find Sullivan's study very useful. -- John M. McTaggart, International Review of Modern Sociology Drawing on her expertise in law and religion, Sullivan argues that religious freedom in America is impossible... [She] succeed[s] in arguing that religious freedoms are not as free as one might think. -- Library Journal Sullivan's examination of the judicial process is only one important aspect her book. The most important contribution is her discussion of the problems of how law defines religion and through its definition impedes religious liberty. -- Bryan K. Fair, Journal of Law and Religion
Author Information
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Religion Program at the University of Buffalo, The State University of New York. She is also the author of ""Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States"".
