Law as Religion, Religion as Law

Herausgeber: Porat, Benjamin; Flatto, David C.

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Produktbeschreibung

Whereas conventional approaches to law and religion regard these as competing domains, this volume explores a vital alternate perspective, which conceives of them as overlapping and interrelated frameworks that structure the social order. The multi-disciplinary essays address political theology, secularism, church-state conflicts, and divine law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108707923
• ISBN-10: 1108707920
• Artikelnr.: 72105610

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.