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Faith or Fraud

Faith or Fraud

Fortune-Telling, Spirituality, and the Law

by Jeremy Patrick

Published by: UBC Press

Series: Law and Society

Imprint: UBC Press

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9780774863353
Published: March 2020

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Published: March 2020

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Law and religion scholars in the United States, Canada, and Australia will find much to recommend this work, which also contains valuable material for British law and religion specialists and sociologists of religion.

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

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.

As a detailed history of the debates over fortune-telling in four different countries, and as an argument for the expansion of religious freedom law to include this kind of practice, Faith or Fraud makes a valuable contribution to the field
~Tisa Wenger, Yale Divinity School, Nova Religio

Faith or Fraud is a thought-provoking read which could provide the catalyst for much further work. It provides a wonderful opportunity to confront our attitudes towards 'new Age' faith and to modern manifestations of faith...All this is done in the context of tantalising glimpses of other topical issues around the transmission of legal ideas within the common law world. ~Charlotte Smith, University of Reading, Ecclesiastical Law Journal

Faith or Fraud is a valuable contribution to the study of legal responses to fortune-telling...A comprehensive survey of this nature has never been conducted, and this is both an insightful and full addition to current scholarship. ~Taryn McLachlan, University of Saskatchewan Law School, Saskatchewan Law Review