{"product_id":"faith-or-fraud-jeremy-patrick-9780774863339","title":"Faith or Fraud: Fortune-Telling, Spirituality, and the Law","description":"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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Using that example as a case study, and building on a thorough history of the legal regulation of fortune-telling laws in four countries, \u003ci\u003eFaith or Fraud\u003c\/i\u003e 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, Jeremy Patrick explains, were conceived in the context of organized religion; now 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. \u003ci\u003eFaith or Fraud\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeremy Patrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0774863331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780774863339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Jeremy Patrick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096717172991,"sku":"9780774863339","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/faith-or-fraud-jeremy-patrick-9780774863339","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}