TY - BOOK ID - 19159747 TI - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom PY - 2005 SN - 0691130582 9780691130583 0691118019 9780691180953 0691180954 9780691118017 PB - Princeton Princeton university press DB - UniCat KW - Begravningsplatser KW - Pokopalisca KW - Religionsfrihet KW - Verska svoboda KW - Juridik och lagstiftning KW - Zakonodaja KW - Zdruzene drzave Amerike KW - ZDA KW - Procesi KW - Pravde. KW - Warner, Marina KW - rättegångar, processer etc. KW - Boca Raton (Fla.) KW - Trials, litigation, etc. KW - Sociology of religion KW - Human rights KW - Cemeteries KW - Freedom of religion KW - 261.7 KW - Burial grounds KW - Burying-grounds KW - Churchyards KW - Graves KW - Graveyards KW - Memorial gardens (Cemeteries) KW - Memorial parks (Cemeteries) KW - Memory gardens (Cemeteries) KW - Necropoleis KW - Necropoles KW - Necropoli KW - Necropolises KW - Burial KW - Death care industry KW - 261.7 De Kerk en de burgerlijke macht: Kerk en Staat; godsdienstvrijheid; verdraagzaamheid; tolerantie:--theologische aspecten KW - De Kerk en de burgerlijke macht: Kerk en Staat; godsdienstvrijheid; verdraagzaamheid; tolerantie:--theologische aspecten KW - Law and legislation KW - Warner, Marina, KW - Boca Raton, Fla. KW - Warner, Miriam KW - Shawcross, Marina Warner, KW - Boca (Fla.) KW - City of Boca Raton (Fla.) KW - Bocaratone (Fla.) UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19159747 AB - "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 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. The book portrays the unsuccessful struggle of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish families in Boca Raton to preserve the practice of placing such religious artifacts as crosses and stars of David on the graves of the city-owned burial ground. Sullivan 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. Indeed, 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. It will have broad appeal not only for religion scholars, but also for anyone interested in law and the Constitution." -- Publisher's website. ER -