Law and religion
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Law and religion
(Issues in law and society)
Ashgate, c2000
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 11 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9781840147452
Description
In ethics and law, questions of right and wrong have some ultimate basis. The source of authority in a legal system would seem to be either divine and transcendent (God, or Gods) or temporal and earthly (man, or men). The contributions to this text discuss the link between religion and law.
Table of Contents
- The inevitability of law and religion - an introduction
- the Ten Commandments - in what sense religious?
- the United Nations and freedom of religion - the work of the Human Rights Committee
- neutrality, separation and accommodation - tensions in American First Amendment doctrine
- wondering after Babel - power, freedom and ideology in US Supreme Court interpretations of the religion clauses
- discretion and discrimination in legal cases involving controversial religious groups and alleged objectionable practices
- from toleration to pluralism - religious liberty and religious establishment under the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act
- religion and international law and policy in the wider European arena - new dimensions and developments
- art, expression and the offended believer
- "and was Jerusalem builded here?" - Talmudic territory and the modernist defensive.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9781840147575
Description
This volume consists of nineteen previously-published articles written by leading international scholars on various aspects of law and religion. The volume looks at law and religion in the context of political power, covering different religions including Christianity, Islam and Judaism. It examines through a diversity of perspectives the law in religion and religion in law, enabling readers to gain multi-disciplinary insights into pressing contemporary issues.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Series preface
- Introduction
- Part I Religions as Sources of Human Rights: The morality of human rights: a nonreligious ground?, Michael J. Perry
- The metaphorical reciprocity between theology and law, Paul Lehmann
- From the trial of Adam and Eve to the judgements of Solomon and Daniel, Daniel Friedmann
- Christian natural law: the spirit and method of, Giovanni Ambrosetti
- Religious foundations of law in the West: an historical perspective, Harold J. Berman
- Law and religion in contemporary Islam, Noel J. Coulson
- Characteristic features of Islamic law: perceptions and misconceptions, Mahdi Zahraa. Part II Religions as Traditions of Law: Obligation: a Jewish jurisprudence of the social order, Robert M. Cover
- The Chinese conceptions of law: Confucian, legalist and Buddhist, Luke T. Lee and Whalen W. Lai
- Hindu conceptions of law, Ludo Rocher
- A conversation with Tibetans? Reconsidering the relationship between religious beliefs and secular legal discourse, Rebecca R. French
- Consensus and suspicion: judicial reasoning and social change in an Indonesian society 1960-1994, John R. Bowen
- Cultured technology: the internet and religious fundamentalism, Karine Barzilai-Nahon and Gad Barzilai. Part III Religions and Human Rights: Conflicts: Female circumcision: religious practice v. human rights violation, Jessica A. Platt
- Behind the veil: women's rights in Islamic societies, Nayer Honarvar
- Rights, religion and community: approaches to violence against women in the context of globalization, Sally Engel Merry
- Nomos and narrative, Robert M. Cover
- Disorderly differences: recognition, accommodation, and American law, Austin Sarat and Roger Berkowitz
- Are human rights universal?, Shashi Tharoor
- Name index.
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