Negotiating Authority

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Negotiating Authority is written by Jenna Dawn Gray-Hildenbrand and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1267649046 (ISBN 10) and 9781267649041 (ISBN 13).

The comparative nature of this project highlights the ways groups are treated differently by the government based on their proximity to white, normative understandings of religion. By defining an action as criminal, the government articulates the limits of tolerance, marks the frontier of the abnormal, places a value on conformity, and encourages an optimum behavior toward which all should strive. Therefore, by investigating criminal prosecutions of religious practitioners, we gain a better understanding of the shifting boundary between deviant criminal activity and constitutionally protected religious practice as well as the role of the state in policing this boundary and reinforcing hegemonic understandings of "normal" and "abnormal" religion.