The Impossibility of Religious Freedom: New Edition

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The 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. Sullivan 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 Americ

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"A smartand in the present circumstances, soberinglittle book."Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times
"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
"An enormously interesting book. . . . [Sullivan] provides a window on the conflict between religious liberty, on the one hand, and the application of secular laws through our courts, on the other. She is a keen, sensitive observer, concerned fundamentally about the failure of lawyers and judges to listen to claimants and their experts."Bryan K. Fair, Journal of Law and Religion
"Significant. . . . [The Impossibility of Religious Freedom] will generate important conversations not only in church/state circles, but among any student and scholar interested in religion and public life in postmodernity."Michael D. McNally, Religious Studies Review
"Sullivan's book has the great virtue of placing abstract legal dilemmas in the concrete realities of everyday life."R. Laurence Moore, American Scholar

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Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Affiliate Professor in the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University Bloomington.