Law and Religious Market Theory - China, Taiwan and Hong Kong

Informationen zum Autor Jianlin Chen grew up in Singapore and Taiwan. He obtained his LL.B. from the National University of Singapore, and his LL.M. and J.S.D. from the University of Chicago. He is qualified to practice in Singapore and New York. Bilingual in English and Chinese, Jianlin has nearly thirty scholarly publications in journals such as Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Law and Social Inquiry, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, and ??????, among many others. He is Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, after having started his academic career at the University of Hong Kong. Klappentext A fresh descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion supported by comparative case studies of Greater China. Zusammenfassung An interdisciplinary approach that will appeal to scholars in law and also sociological disciplines such as religion! law and society! and East Asian studies. Utilises comparative case studies from China! Taiwan and Hong Kong to illustrate the original law and religious market theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The law and religious market theory; 3. China; 4. Taiwan; 5. Hong Kong; 6. Articulating the normative benchmark; 7. Means and ways; 8. Political participation and democratic reform; 9. Conclusion and epilogue: same, same but different?

Product details

• Authors: Jianlin Chen, Jianlin (The University of Hong Kong) Chen, Jianlin (University of Melbourne) Chen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781107170179
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17017-9
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Sociology, History of Ideas, Law, Taiwan, Asia, LAW / General, Hong Kong, Politics & government, Religion & politics, Comparative Politics, Philosophy of religion, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law