{"title":"Winnifred Fallers Sullivan","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinnifred Fallers Sullivan's work explores the intricate relationships between religion, law, and society, inviting readers to reconsider conventional views on religious freedom and governance. Her thoughtful analyses engage deeply with themes of authority, belief, and the complexities of maintaining spiritual and political balance in diverse communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from fields such as \u003cem\u003eReligion \u0026amp; Spirituality\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e, Sullivan’s writing challenges assumptions and encourages critical reflection on how religion shapes public life and individual experience. Her books are essential for those seeking a nuanced understanding of contemporary religious discourse and its societal impact.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-impossibility-of-religious-freedom-by-winnifred-fallers-sullivan-9780691180953","title":"The Impossibility of Religious Freedom","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Constitution may guarantee it. But religious freedom in America is, in fact, impossible. So argues this timely and iconoclastic work by law and religion scholar Winnifred Sullivan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSullivan uses as the backdrop for the book the trial of Warner vs. Boca Raton, a recent case concerning the laws that protect the free exercise of religion in America. The trial, for which the author served as an expert witness, concerned regulations banning certain memorials from a multiconfessional nondenominational cemetery in Boca Raton, Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book portrays the unsuccessful struggle of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish families in Boca Raton to preserve the practice of placing such religious artefacts as crosses and stars of David on the graves of the city-owned burial ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSullivan demonstrates how, during the course of the proceeding, citizens from all walks of life and religious backgrounds were harassed to define just what their religion is. She argues that their plight points up a shocking truth: religion cannot be coherently defined for the purposes of American law, because everyone has different definitions of what religion is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIndeed, while religious freedom as a political idea was arguably once a force for tolerance, it has now become a force for intolerance, she maintains. A clear-eyed look at the laws created to protect religious freedom, this vigorously argued book offers a new take on a right deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt will have broad appeal not only for religion scholars, but also for anyone interested in law and the Constitution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing a new preface by the author, \u003ci\u003eThe Impossibility of Religious Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new take on a right deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46850132181228,"sku":"9780691180953","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1796673482434.jpg?v=1759080046"},{"product_id":"the-abyss-or-life-is-simple-by-dr-erik-thorstensen-9780226821320","title":"The Abyss or Life Is Simple","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sprawling collection of essays on religious textures in Knausgaard’s writings and our time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMin Kamp\u003c\/em\u003e, or \u003cem\u003eMy Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e, is a six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the most significant literary works of the young twenty-first century. Published in Norwegian between 2009 and 2011, the novel presents an absorbing first-person narrative of the life of a writer with the same name as the author, in a world at once fully disillusioned and thoroughly enchanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2015, a group of scholars began meeting to discuss the peculiarly religious qualities of \u003cem\u003eMy Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e. Some were interested in Knausgaard’s attention to explicitly religious subjects and artworks, others to what they saw as a more diffuse attention to the religiousness of contemporary life. 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