Kristine Kalanges

Religious Liberty in Western and Islamic Law

Toward a World Legal Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

In Religious Liberty in Western and Islamic Law, Kristine Kalanges argues that differences between Western and Islamic legal formulations of religious freedom are attributable to variations in their respective religious and intellectual histories. Kalanges suggests that while divergence between the two bodies of law challenges the characterization of religious liberty as a universal human right, the difficult choice between the universality of religious liberty rights and peaceful co-existence of diverse legal cultures may yet be transformed through the cultivation of a world legal tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780199859467
• ISBN-10: 0199859469
• Artikelnr.: 34440461

Autorenporträt

Kristine Kalanges is Assistant Professor of Justice, Law & Society in the School of Public Affairs at American University. She holds a JD from Yale Law School, where she was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics and Public Policy, and a PhD from Georgetown University, where she was a Graduate Fellow in International Relations. Previously, she practiced law in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and served in Washington, DC as a law clerk for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Inhaltsangabe

1 - Introduction
2 - Theological and Philosophical Origins of Religious Liberty in the U.S. Constitution
3 - Religious Liberty in International Human Rights Law
4 - Religious Liberty and Shari'a
5 - Between Religion and Law: Politics as an Intervening Variable
6 - Religious Liberty in Islamic International Law
7 - Conclusion: Toward a World Legal Tradition