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This book examines the competing regimes of law and religion an offers a multidisciplinary approach to demonstrate the global scope of their influence. It argues that the tension between these two institutions results from their disagreements about the kinds of rule that should govern human life and society, and from where they should be derived.
List of contents
Acknowledgment Introduction; Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Win-Chiat Lee and J. Wilson Parker PART I: FUNDAMENTAL CONCERNS 1. The Return of Political Theology; Mark Lilla 2. Monotheistic Faith and the Cosmopolitan Conscience; William Schweiker PART II: LIMITS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION OF FREE EXERCISE AND ESTABLISHMENT DOCTRINE 3. Religion, Neutrality, and Liberty: Epistemology and Judicial Interpretation; Frank Ravitch 4. A Unique Religious Exemption from Anti-discrimination Laws in the Case of Gays? Putting the Call for Exemptions For Those Who Discriminate Against Married or Marrying Gays In Context; Michael Kent Curtis 5. Accommodation as Establishment: State Sponsorship of Religious Pilgrimages in Nigeria; Simeon O. Ilesanmi PART III: THE CHALLENGE OF ISLAM 6. Theocrats Living Under Secular Law: An Engagement with Islamic Legal Theory; Andrew March 7. The Just War Argument in Islam (Who's Up? Who's Down?); John Kelsay 8. Veiled Women in the American Courtroom: Is the Niqab a Barrier to Justice?; Anita L. Allen 9. Terror(izing) the 'Veil': American Muslim Women Caught in the Crosshairs of Intersectionality; Sahar F. Aziz Concluding Thoughts 10. Rules of Law and God: Liberal Democratic Reflections on Freedom, Equality, and Religion; Richard B. Miller Postscript: The 'Arab Spring' of 2011 and Case of Lautsi and Others v. Italy; J. Wilson Parker
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Anita L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania, USA Sahar F. Aziz Sahar Aziz, Texas A&M University School of Law, USA Michael Kent Curtis, Wake Forest University School of Law, USA Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University, USA John Kelsay, Florida State University in Tallahassee, USA Win-chiat Lee, Wake Forest University, USA Mark Lilla, Columbia University, USA Andrew F. March, Yale University, USA Richard Miller, University of Chicago Divinity School, USA J. Wilson Parker, Wake Forest University School of Law, USA Frank S. Ravitch, Michigan State University College of Law, USA William Schweiker, University of Chicago, USA
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This book examines the competing regimes of law and religion an offers a multidisciplinary approach to demonstrate the global scope of their influence. It argues that the tension between these two institutions results from their disagreements about the kinds of rule that should govern human life and society, and from where they should be derived.
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“This collection of essays … is one of the latest scholarly attempts to grapple with the questions arising from recent events and the trends that highlight the perennial issues of the seemingly competing regimes of the rule of God and the rule of modern civil law. … The book overall offers to readers a useful … contribution toward a liberal cosmopolitan perspective on the relationship of religious conviction and the liberal political order.” (Stephen Wolfe, Journal of Church and State, Vol. 58 (3), 2016)
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"This collection of essays ... is one of the latest scholarly attempts to grapple with the questions arising from recent events and the trends that highlight the perennial issues of the seemingly competing regimes of the rule of God and the rule of modern civil law. ... The book overall offers to readers a useful ... contribution toward a liberal cosmopolitan perspective on the relationship of religious conviction and the liberal political order." (Stephen Wolfe, Journal of Church and State, Vol. 58 (3), 2016)
