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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > General
The growing presence in Western society of non-mainstream faiths
and spiritual practices poses a dilemma for the law. 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" (SBNR) on the future
legal understanding of religious freedom. Unlike SBNR belief
systems that can encompass multiple religions, philosophies, and
folklore, traditional legal interpretations of "freedom of
religion" are based on organized religion and are ultimately shown
to have failed to evolve along with ideas about religion itself.
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