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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cultural lives of law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Histories of the Legal Secular; 1. Moses' Veil: Secularization as Christian Myth; 2. Secular Law and the Realm of False Religion; 3. Assenting to the Law: Sacrifice and Punishment at the Dawn of Secularism; 4. National Security and Secularization in the English Revolution of 1688; 5. "Intolerance of Intolerance" in the Unitarian Controversy: The Theology of Baker v. Fales; 6. The University and the Advent of the Academic Secular: The State's Management of Public Instruction; 7. Stasiology: Political Theology and the Figure of the Sacrificial Enemy.
- 8. Against Sovereign Impunity: The Political Theology of the International Criminal CourtPart II: Ethnographies of the Legal Secular; 9. Sovereign Power and Secular Indeterminacy: Is Egypt a Secular or a Religious State?; 10. The Ruse of Law: Legal Equality and the Problem of Citizenship in a Multireligious Sudan; 11. The Religio-Secular Continuum: Reflections on the Religious Dimensions of Turkish Secularism; 12. "The Spirits Were Always Watching": Buddhism, Secular Law, and Social Change in Thailand; 13. Secular Speech and Popular Passions: The Antinomies of Indian Secularism.
- 14. Courting Culture: Unexpected Relationships between Religionand Law in Contemporary Hawai'i15. The Peculiar Stake U.S. Protestants Have in the Question of State Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages; 16. Sacred Property: Searching for Value in the Rubble of 9/11; 17. When Is Religion, Religion, and a Knife, a Knife--and Who Decides?: The Case of Denmark; Index.