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This book brings together leading and emerging scholars in the field from the UK and Ireland. Each contributor has been invited to select and analyse a 'leading work', which has for them shed light on the way that Law and Religion are intertwined.
List of contents
1. Prologue; 2. Striking a Balance: Restoring a neglected leading work; 3. Religion and the Law: An unconventional path maker; 4. Of Presbyters and Kings: A Scottish trail-blazer; 5. The European Convention on Human Rights: A living leading work; 6. Republican Fundamentalism against Laïcité: Tempering the appropriation of a constitutional doctrine; 7. Freedom of Religion under the European Convention on Human Rights: Foreshadowing interpretative dilemmas; 8. The Impossibility of Religious Freedom: ‘Legal religion’ and its discontents; 9. Law and Revolution: Rewriting the narrative of law; 10. Religious Freedom, Religious Discrimination, and the Workplace: Overlapping protections in changing contexts; 11. A Note on the Theology of Burial: A settled controversy; 12. Roman Canon Law in the Church of England: Maitland’s legacy on the study of religious law; 13. Multicultural Jurisdictions: The need for a feminist approach to Law and Religion; 14. Afterword.
About the author
Russell Sandberg is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University where he researches at the Centre for Law & Religion. He is the author of Law and Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Religion, Law and Society (Cambridge University Press 2014) and editor of Religion and Legal Pluralism (Ashgate, 2015). He is Managing Editor of ICLARS Series on Law and Religion, published by Ashgate. Celia Kenny is an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland and a Research Associate at the Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff Law School. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Cardiff, with degrees in Theology, Ethics, International Peace Studies, and Canon Law. She is presently co-Chair of the Irish Council of Christians and Jews.
Summary
This book brings together leading and emerging scholars in the field from the UK and Ireland. Each contributor has been invited to select and analyse a ‘leading work’, which has for them shed light on the way that Law and Religion are intertwined.
