Law and Religion, a Reader
Author: Frank S. Ravitch
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 962
ISBN-13: 9780314180452
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RLUIPA Reader
Author: Michael S. Giaimo
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781604423587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a general background of RLUIPA (Religious Land Use and Institionalized Persons Act) so that the reader understands the context in which RLUIPA was passed by Congress in 2000, as well as a very practical discussion about RLUIPA litigation from the perspective of the church and the perspective of the community. The book offers information and advice on initiating a RLUIPA lawsuit, as well as defending against a RLUIPA lawsuit.
The Asian Law and Society Reader
Author: Lynette J. Chua
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1108836410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First reader to feature key law and society research and debates in nearly all Asian countries.
When Law and Religion Meet
Author: April L. Bogle
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2007-10-25
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 0802862942
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Law. Religion. Do they have anything to say to each other? If so, what, and toward what end? And is the notion of productive dialogue between these two fields not surprising but essential? Long considered unlikely bedfellows at best and, at worst, outright opponents, law and religion have been meeting in significant ways, thanks to the seminal and ongoing work of Emory University??'s Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR), where scholars worldwide come together for this express purpose. Neither belligerently butting heads nor cozying up for a t?te-?-t?te, representatives of these two disciplines are daring to look at the big questions that bridge their domains ? and are daring to propose ways of working together. These encounters go way beyond verbal sparring and schmoozing. Joining the ranks of law and religion professors at CSLR conferences are the leaders of major religions in the U.S. ? Judaism, Islam, and multifaceted Christianity ? along with psychologists, sociologists, biologists, and policy makers. Commemorating CSLR??'s twenty-fifth anniversary, When Law and Religion Meet traces what motivated the Center??'s beginnings, what has impelled its work over the last quarter century, and what fuels the trajectory of law and religion, both separately and together, as they continue in productive dialogue. This pithy, illustrated volume is one that a wide range of readers will want to skim, explore, and return to.
Religion and Law
Author: Peter W. Edge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1351905112
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discussion of the way in which law engages with religious difference often takes place within the context of a single jurisdiction. Religion and Law: An Introduction, presents a comprehensive text for students, drawing on examples from across key Anglophone jurisdictions - the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, as well as international law, to explore a broad range of issues. Aimed at a non-legal readership, this book introduces the use of legal sources and focuses on factual situations as much as legal doctrine. Key issues arising from interaction of the religious individual and the State are discussed, as well as the religious organisation or community and the State. The interaction is explored through case studies of areas as diverse as the legal regulation of religious drug use, sacred spaces and sacred places, and claims of clergy misconduct. Taking a broad, non-jurisdictional approach to the key issues, in particular providing insights differing from the dominant US experiences and paradigms, this student-friendly textbook includes a clearly structured bibliography and clear guidance on how to approach relevant legal materials.
Legal Responses to Religious Differences
Author: Peter William Edge
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 900448082X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Until recently English law has lacked any specific, generally applicable, guarantees of religious rights. Thus, bodies of law have developed in particular areas where religious interests arise but without a common legal frame. The Human Rights Act 1998, however, has brought the guarantees of the European Convention on Human Rights, most specifically the guarantees of religious rights, non-discrimination, and education rights, more fully into English law. As well as showing how one legal system has engaged with international obligations in respect of religious rights, this text provides a valuable source for comparative study of religious interests in national jurisdictions. It explores the particular response of the English legal system when faced with religious difference, and considers the extent to which the Human Rights Act may produce significant legal change. The text is aimed specifically at both the legal and non-legal reader, and concludes with a discussion of how to use English legal sources, and an extensive bibliography.
Religion and the Law in America [2 volumes]
Author: Scott A. Merriman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2007-05-18
Total Pages: 679
ISBN-13: 185109864X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work is a comprehensive survey of one of the oldest—and hottest—debates in American history: the role of religion in the public discourse. The relationship between church and state was contentious long before the framers of the Constitution undertook the bold experiment of separating the two, sparking a debate that would rage for centuries: What is the role of religion in government—and vice versa? Religion and the Law in America explores the many facets of this question, from prayer in public schools to the addition of the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, from government investigation of religious fringe groups to federal grants for faith-based providers of social services. In more than 250 A–Z entries, along with a series of broad, thematic essays, it examines the groups, laws, and court cases that have framed this ongoing debate. Through its careful, balanced exploration of the interaction between government and religion throughout the history of the United States, the work provides all Americans—students, scholars, and lay readers alike—with a deep understanding of one of the central, enduring issues in our history.
Christianity and International Law
Author: Pamela Slotte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 1108642950
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This cross-disciplinary collaboration offers historical and contemporary scholarship exploring the interface of Christianity and international law. Christianity and International Law aims to understand and move past arguments, narratives and tropes that commonly frame law-religion studies in global governance. Readers are introduced to a range of confessional and critical perspectives explicitly engaging a diverse range of methodological and theoretical orientations to rethink how we experience and find ourselves caught within the phenomena of Christianity and international law.
The Transition of Religion to Culture in Law and Public Discourse
Author: Lori G. Beaman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-03-27
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1000050556
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies. Analyses of three legal cases involving religion in the public sphere are used to illuminate this trend: a municipal council chamber; a town hall; and town board meetings. Each case involves a different national context—Canada, France and the United States—and each illustrates something interesting about the shape-shifting nature of religion, specifically its flexibility and dexterity in the face of the secular, the religious and the plural. Despite the differences in national contexts, in each instance religion is transformed into culture or heritage by the courts to justify or excuse its presence and to distance the state from the possibility that it is violating legal norms of distance from religion. The cultural practice or symbol is represented as a shared national value or activity. Transforming the ‘Other’ into ‘Us’ through reconstitution is also possible. Finally, anxiety about the ‘Other’ becomes part of the story of rendering religion as culture, resulting in the impugning of anyone who dares to question the putative shared culture. The book will be essential reading for students, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of sociology of religion, religious studies, socio-legal studies, law and public policy, constitutional law, religion and politics, and cultural studies.
The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature
Author: John Witte
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780231133609
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a major project to be undertaken as part of a broad intiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts and the University of Notre Dame on the role of Christianity in modern society. John Witte is one of the editors of the forthcoming Sex, Marriage, and the Family: A Reader in World Religions.
