Michael McNally’s book Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment responds to recent doubts, raised by Indigenous communities, lawyers, and scholars about the usefulness of religious freedom law for Indigenous nations who are trying to protect their cultural practices and natural environment—especially land and water. Native American plaintiffs have gone to...
Abstract In Buddhism, happiness is achieved when a person can perceive the true nature of reality, unmodified by the mental constructs we superimpose upon it. This authentic happiness comes from having an exceptionally healthy state of mind that underlies and suffuses all emotional states and that embraces all the joys and sorrows that come one's way. The mental states necessary for authentic...