Faith or Fraud

Fortune-Telling, Spirituality, and the Law

Jeremy Patrick (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2020
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-6333-9 (ISBN)

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The growing presence in Western society of non-mainstream faiths and spiritual practices poses a dilemma for the law. For example, if a fortune teller promises to tell the future in exchange for cash, and both parties believe in the process, has a fraud been committed? Building on a thorough history of the legal regulation of fortune-telling laws in four countries, Faith or Fraud examines the impact of people who identify as "spiritual but not religious" on the future legal understanding of religious freedom. Traditional legal notions of religious freedom were conceived in the context of organized religion. Jeremy Patrick examines how the law needs to adapt to a contemporary spirituality in which individuals can select concepts drawn from multiple religions, philosophies, and folklore to develop their own idiosyncratic belief systems. Faith or Fraud exposes the law's failure to recognize individual spirituality as part of modern religious practice, concluding that legal understanding of freedom of religion has not evolved along with religion itself.

Jeremy Patrick is a lecturer in the School of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, where he also convenes the law, religion, and heritage research program team. His work on religious freedom, the separation of church and state, blasphemous libel and similar topics can be found in journals such as the Journal of Law and Religion, the University of British Columbia Law Review, and the University of Queensland Law Journal.

Introduction

1 Fortune-Telling

2 English Law

3 Canadian Law

4 Australian Law

5 American Law

6 Analysis of Arguments for and Against

7 Spiritual Counselling and Freedom of Religion

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Chronology of English Statutes and Cases on Fortune-Telling

Appendix 2: Further Reading

Notes; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Law and Society
Zusatzinfo	4 b&w photos
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7748-6333-1 / 0774863331
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-6333-9 / 9780774863339
Zustand	Neuware