Law as Religion, Religion as Law (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Flatto, David C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The conventional approach to law and religion assumes that these are competing domains, which raises questions about the freedom of, and from, religion; alternate commitments of religion and human rights; and respective jurisdictions of civil and religious courts. This volume moves beyond this competitive paradigm to consider law and religion as overlapping and interrelated frameworks that structure the social order, arguing that law and religion share similar properties and have a symbiotic relationship. Moreover, many legal systems exhibit religious characteristics, informing their notions of authority, precedent, rituals and canonical texts, and most religions invoke legal concepts or terminology. The contributors address this blurring of law and religion in the contexts of political theology, secularism, church-state conflicts, and the foundational idea of divine law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108787987
• Artikelnr.: 66181047

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Sanctification and Secularization: 1. Desanctification of law and
the problem of absolutes Jeremy Waldron; 2. The paradox of human rights
discourse and the Jewish legal tradition Suzanne Last Stone; 3. Sovereign
imaginaries: visualizing the sacred foundation of law's authority Richard
K. Sherwin; Part II. Legal-Religious Language: 4. Dat: from law to
religion: the transformation of formative term in modern times Abraham
Melamed; 5. Law as religion, religion as law: Halakhah from a semiotic
point of view Bernard S. Jackson; 6. Canonicity as a defining feature of
legal and religious discourse: a programmatic essay Daniel Reifman; Part
III. Legal-Theological Roots: 7. Exceptional grace: religion as the
sovereign suspension of law Robert Yelle; 8. A bad man theory of religious
law (numbers 15:30-31 and its afterlife) David C. Flatto; 9. Soviet law and
political religion Dmytro Vovk; 10. International law as evangelism Kevin
Crow; Part IV. Religious Conceptions of Law: 11. 'Enjoin them upon your
children to keep' (Deuteronomy 32:46): law as commandment and legacy, or,
Robert Cover meets Midrash Steven D. Fraade; 12. 'Between man and god' and
'Between man and his fellow': categories in Polemical context Itzhak Brand;
13. Christian feasts and administration of Roman justice in late antiquity
Silvia Schiavo; Part V. Law in Formation: Religious Perspectives: 14. Law
as a problematic aspect of religion: Paul's skepticism in a broader Jewish
context Serge Ruzer; 15. When law meets theology: legality and revelation
in the Jewish, Islamic, and Zoroastrian traditions in the Abbasid period
Yishai Kiel.