After secular law
Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular. Yet recent scholarship has called into question the simplistic narrative of a separation between law and religion and blurred the boundaries between...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif
Stanford University Press
2011
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| In: | Year: 2011 |
| Series/Journal: | Cultural lives of law
The Cultural Lives of Law Ser. |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion And Law
B Electronic books B Secularism |
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| Summary: | Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular. Yet recent scholarship has called into question the simplistic narrative of a separation between law and religion and blurred the boundaries between these two categories, enabling new accounts of their relation that do not necessarily either collapse them together or return law to a religious foundation.This work gives special attention to the secularism of law, exploring how law became secular, the phenomenology of the legal secular, and the |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0804775362 |