After secular law
by Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers Taussig-Rubbo, Mateo Yelle, Robert A.
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 book gives special attention to the secularism of law, exploring how law became secular, the phenomenology of the legal secular, and the challenges that lingering religious formations and othe…
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- Full title :After secular law / edited by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Robert A. Yelle, Mateo Taussig-Rubbo.
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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 book gives special attention to the secularism of law, exploring how law became secular, the phenomenology of the legal secular, and the challenges that lingering religious formations and other aspects of globalization pose for modern law's self-understanding.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
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- Publisher(s):Stanford Law Books
- Place of Publication:Stanford, California
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (381 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0804780706, 9780804780704
- oclc:ocn758385697
- LC Classification:BL65.L33
- Dewey Decimal:201/.72
Table of Contents
Moses' veil : secularization as Christian myth / Robert A. Yelle -- Secular law and the realm of false religion / Jakob De Roover -- Assenting to the law : sacrifice and punishment at the dawn of secularism / Jonathan Sheehan -- National security and secularization in the English Revolution of 1688 / Rachel Weil -- "Intolerant of intolerance" in the Unitarian controversy : the theology of Baker v. Fales / Stephanie Phillips -- The university and the advent of the academic secular : the state's management of public instruction / Tomoko Masuzawa -- Stasiology : political theology and the figure of the sacrificial enemy / Banu Bargu -- Against sovereign impunity : the political theology of the International Criminal Court / Bruce Rosenstock -- Sovereign power and secular indeterminacy : is Egypt a secular or religious state? / Hussein Ali Agrama -- The ruse of law : legal equality and the problem of citizenship in a multi-religious Sudan / Noah Salomon -- The religio-secular continuum, or, Secular law as a theological discourse in Turkey / Markus Dressler -- "The spirits were always watching" : Buddhism, secular law, and social change in Thailand / David M. Engel -- Secular speech an…
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