The Confluence of Law and Religion

The Confluence of Law and Religion

Author: Mark Hill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1107105439

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Examines the interdisciplinary development of law and religion, with a particular focus on Professor Norman Doe's pioneering role.


The Confluence of Law and Religion

The Confluence of Law and Religion

Author: Frank Cranmer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1316598446

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Since the early 1990s, politicians, policymakers, the media and academics have increasingly focused on religion, noting the significant increase in the number of cases involving religion. As a result, law and religion has become a specific area of study. The work of Professor Norman Doe at Cardiff University has served as a catalyst for this change, especially through the creation of the LLM in Canon Law in 1991 (the first degree of its type since the time of the Reformation) and the Centre for Law and Religion in 1998 (the first of its kind in the UK). Published to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the LLM in Canon Law and to pay tribute to Professor Doe's achievements so far, this volume reflects upon the interdisciplinary development of law and religion.


Law and Religion

Law and Religion

Author: Russell Sandberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-03-24

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1139501186

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The worlds of law and religion increasingly collide in Parliament and the courtroom. Religious courts, the wearing of religious symbols and faith schools have given rise to increased legislation and litigation. This is the first student textbook to set out the fundamental principles and issues of law and religion in England and Wales. Offering a succinct exposition and critical analysis of the field, it explores how English law regulates the practice of religion. The textbook surveys law and religion from various perspectives, such as human rights and discrimination law, as well as considering the legal status of both religion and religious groups. Controversial and provocative questions are explored, promoting full engagement with the key debates. The book's explanatory approach and detailed references ensure understanding and encourage independent study. Students can track key developments on the book's updating website. This innovative text is essential reading for all students in the field.


Religion, Law and Security in Africa

Religion, Law and Security in Africa

Author: M Christian Green

Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA

Published: 2018-05-16

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1928314422

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Security is a key topic of our time. But how do we understand it? Do law and religion take different views of it? In this fifth volume in the Law and Religion in Africa series, radicalisation, terrorism, blasphemy, hate speech, religious freedom and just war theories rub shoulders with issues of witchcraft, female genital mutilation circumcision, child marriage, displaced communities and additional issues besides. This unique collection of topics is both challenging and inspiring, providing illumination in troubled times, and forming a sound foundation for future scholarship.


Constituting Religion

Constituting Religion

Author: Tamir Moustafa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-25

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1108334075

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Most Muslim-majority countries have legal systems that enshrine both Islam and liberal rights. While not necessarily at odds, these dual commitments nonetheless provide legal and symbolic resources for activists to advance contending visions for their states and societies. Using the case study of Malaysia, Constituting Religion examines how these legal arrangements enable litigation and feed the construction of a 'rights-versus-rites binary' in law, politics, and the popular imagination. By drawing on extensive primary source material and tracing controversial cases from the court of law to the court of public opinion, this study theorizes the 'judicialization of religion' and the radiating effects of courts on popular legal and religious consciousness. The book documents how legal institutions catalyze ideological struggles, which stand to redefine the nation and its politics. Probing the links between legal pluralism, social movements, secularism, and political Islamism, Constituting Religion sheds new light on the confluence of law, religion, politics, and society. This title is also available as Open Access.


Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law

Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law

Author: Robin Griffith-Jones

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-23

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1107100194

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Jurists, historians and theologians from five faiths and three continents examine the importance of Magna Carta's religious foundations.


Religion, Law and Society

Religion, Law and Society

Author: Russell Sandberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-05-08

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1107027438

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What can lawyers and sociologists learn from each other about religion in the twenty-first century?


Great Christian Jurists in English History

Great Christian Jurists in English History

Author: Mark Hill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-09

Total Pages: 621

ISBN-13: 1108135986

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The Great Christian Jurists series comprises a library of national volumes of detailed biographies of leading jurists, judges and practitioners, assessing the impact of their Christian faith on the professional output of the individuals studied. Little has previously been written about the faith of the great judges who framed and developed the English common law over centuries, but this unique volume explores how their beliefs were reflected in their judicial functions. This comparative study, embracing ten centuries of English law, draws some remarkable conclusions as to how Christianity shaped the views of lawyers and judges. Adopting a long historical perspective, this volume also explores the lives of judges whose practice in or conception of law helped to shape the Church, its law or the articulation of its doctrine.


Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion

Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion

Author: Clifford Ando

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 3110367033

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The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has had different salience, and been understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume brings together essays from an international array of experts in law and religion, in order to examine the public/private distinction in comparative perspective. The essays focus on the cultures and religions of the ancient Mediterranean, in the formative periods of Greece and Rome and the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Particular attention is given to the private exercise of religion, the relation between public norms and private life, and the division between public and private space and the place of religion therein.