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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148777503321

Autore

Cox Josephine <1941-2020>

Titolo

Beachcomber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

HarperCollins UK

ISBN

0-00-726056-3

Disciplina

823.914

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Musica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

One of the country's bestselling storytellers joins HarperCollins with her new page-turning drama about struggle and triumph over adversity.The Beachcomber is the story of two people, each with a dream, each lonely in different ways, and just when everything seems to be coming right for them, fate steps in to turn their worlds upside down.In the summer of 1952, two lonely people arrive in the pretty seaside hamlet of West Bay. Strangers coming from very different backgrounds, they are there for the same reasons: to find peace of mind and the chance to start a new life.A quiet, lonely man, Tom Arnold has abandoned all his possessions and walked away from a highly paid job. A year ago, he had a wife and two beautiful children, when suddenly his world was turned upside-down. The car he was driving with his family was deliberately run off the seaside road high above the cliffs. He was the only survivor. The maniac driver - who Tom is sure intended to kill them all - has never been found.Now, a year later, he needs to be alone to deal with the pain and contemplate his future.Kathy Wilson has tried to cling on to her zest for life and her sense of humour through times of pain and loneliness. Recovering from her divorce, she seeks comfort in the arms of other men and parties. But a shocking, revealing row with her mother is the final straw, and consequently when she inherits a rundown house in West Bay, she flees to Dorset.For both Tom and Kathy, it seems there is hope of rebuilding their lives. Yet even now, someone means to wreck both Tom and Kathy's search for happiness.



People are jealous. And a brutal killer is still on the loose... Suddenly West Bay is not the peaceful place it was...

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798212603321

Titolo

Religion and the exercise of public authority / / edited by Benjamin L Berger and Richard Moon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2016

ISBN

1-5099-0647-9

1-5099-0649-5

1-5099-0648-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Disciplina

342.7108/52

Soggetti

Church and state - Canada

Freedom of religion - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : religious neutrality and the exercise of public authority -- Richard Moon and Benjamin L Berger -- The meaning and entailment of the religious neutrality of the state : the case of public employees -- Jocelyn Maclure -- Against circumspection : judges, religious symbols, and signs of moral independence -- Benjamin L Berger -- Religious lawyering and legal ethics -- Faisal Bhabha -- Managing and imagining religion in Canada from the top and the bottom : 15 years after -- Paul Bramadat -- God keep our land : the legal ritual of the McKenna-McBride Royal Commission, 1913-16 -- Pamela E Klassen -- In -- visible religion in public institutions : Canadian Muslim public servants -- Amélie Barras, Jennifer A Selby, and Lori G Beaman -- The prayer case saga in canada : an expert insider? : perspective on praying in the political and public arenas -- Solange Lefebvre -- Physicians' rights to conscientious objection -- Bruce Ryder -- Conscientious objections by civil servants : the case of marriage commissioners and same-sex civil marriages -- Richard Moon -- A freedom of religion-based argument against religious



schools -- Daniel M Weinstock -- "Open house -- portes ouvertes" : classrooms as sites of interfaith interface -- Shauna Van Praagh.

Sommario/riassunto

In the burgeoning literature on law and religion, scholarly attention has tended to focus on broad questions concerning the scope of religious freedom, the nature of toleration and the meaning of secularism. An under-examined issue is how religion figures in the decisions, actions and experiences of those charged with performing public duties. This point of contact between religion and public authority has generated a range of legal and political controversies around issues such as the wearing of religious symbols by public officials, prayer at municipal government meetings, religious education and conscientious objection by public servants. Authored by scholars from a variety of disciplines, the chapters in this volume provide insight into these and other issues. Yet the volume also provides an entry point into a deeper examination of the concepts that are often used to organise and manage religious diversity, notably state neutrality. By examining the exercise of public authority by individuals who are religiously committed - or who, in the discharge of their public responsibilities, must account for those who are - this volume exposes the assumptions about legal and political life that underlie the concept of state neutrality and reveals its limits as a governing ideal