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After Secular Law.

Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular. Yet recent scholarship has called into question the simplistic narrative of a separation between law and religion and blurred the boundaries between...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sullivan, Winnifred
Otros Autores: Yelle, Robert, Taussig-Rubbo, Mateo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Colección:Cultural lives of law.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular. Yet 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 work gives special attention to the secularism of law, exploring how law became secular, the phenomenology of the legal secular, and the.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (402 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780804780704
0804780706