Law and religion

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Law and religion

edited by Rex J. Ahdar

（Issues in law and society）

Ashgate, c2000

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9781840147452

内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9781840147575

内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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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