Law as religion, religion as law /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Other Authors:	Flatto, David C. (Editor), Porat, Benny (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Subjects:	Religion and law. Religious law and legislation. Jewish law. Canon law. Droit juif. Droit canonique. Religion et droit. canon law. Canon law Jewish law Religion and law Religious law and legislation Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Desanctification of law and the problem of absolutes / Jeremy Waldron
The paradox of human rights discourse and the Jewish legal tradition / Suzanne Last Stone
Sovereign imaginaries : visualizing the sacred foundation of law's authority / Richard K. Sherwin
Dat : from law to religion : the transformation of formative term in modern times / Abraham Melamed
Law as religion, religion as law : Halakhah from a semiotic point of view / Bernard S. Jackson
Canonicity as a defining feature of legal and religious discourse : a programmatic essay / Daniel Reifman
Exceptional grace : religion as the sovereign suspension of law / Robert Yelle
A bad man theory of religious law (numbers 15:30-31 and its afterlife) / David C. Flatto
Soviet law and political religion / Dmytro Vovk
International law as evangelism / Kevin Crow
"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
Law as a problematic aspect of religion : Paul's skepticism in a broader Jewish context / Serge Ruzer
When law meets theology : legality and revelation in the Jewish, Islamic, and Zoroastrian traditions in the Abbasid period / Yishai Kiel.