"This is a remarkably fine work that discusses the way religion is
perceived and dealt with in the United States. The subject is of
great moment not only in America but also in the world at large,
and Sullivan has treated it with considerable analytical skill and
ethnographic detail. The result is a powerful and convincing
argument."--Talal Asad, City University of New York Graduate Center
"Provocative. Engaging. Valuable. Sullivan has created a kind of
analytical triptych that captures some of the most important
features of religions and law in the United States. It is a finely
crafted portrait of an incredibly suggestive trial, a meditation on
the political/legal status of folk religions in the United States,
and a theoretical intervention into contemporary studies of
religion jurisprudence."--Jason Bivins, North Carolina State
University.
""The Impossibility of Religious Freedom" is an astonishing
book. Winnifred Sullivan once again demonstrates her flair for
extracting a big lesson from a seemingly small event--in this book,
a controversy over the allowable style of grave markers in a public
cemetery in Boca Raton, Florida. To the town, the issue was the
ease of mowing the cemetery and making it look tidy; for the
survivors of the dead buried in the cemetery the issue was the
appropriate expression of religious faith. This case looks like a
simple church-state controversy, but Sullivan (an expert witness in
the case) deftly explains why the federal court and the First
Amendment really cannot cope with the issues involved. Separating
church and state requires defining what religion is. The devil here
is in the definition. Sullivan offers an important challenge to the
easyassumptions to the current propensity of federal courts to
accommodate religion. What is religion anyway? Read this
fascinating story to see how challenging that question
is."--Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University
"Sullivan's exploration of unofficial religion is elegant,
moving, uncompromising, and profoundly important. By examining
religion literally from the ground up, it challenges all of the
familiar pieties about religious liberty in America."--Philip
Hamburger, author of "Separation of Church and State"
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