Karen Taliaferro

The Possibility of Religious Freedom

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781108423953
• ISBN-10: 1108423957
• Artikelnr.: 56397483

Autorenporträt

Karen Taliaferro is Assistant Professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. She has held fellowships at Princeton University's James Madison Program and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service-Qatar, as well as an NSEP Boren Fellowship in Morocco, where she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Religion and law in late modernity
2. Antigone: the tragedy of human and divine law
3. Maimonides' middle way: teleology as a guide for the perplexed
4. Between Shar¿'a and human law: Ibn Rushd and the unwritten law of nature
5. Arguing natural law: Tertullian and religious freedom in the Roman Empire
Conclusion. Natural law, modernity and aporia
Epilogue. Religious freedom in Qatar.