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Faith and Law : how religious traditions from Calvinism to Islam view American law /
The relationship between religion and the law is a hot-button topic in America, with the courts, Congress, journalists, and others engaging in animated debates on what influence, if any, the former should have on the latter. Many of these discussions are dominated by the legal perspective, which vie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Robert F. Cochran, Jr.
- pt. 1. Augustinian framework: the City of God and the City of Man. Augustine. Augustine and law / Elizabeth Mensch
- pt. 2. Reformation faiths. Calvinists. Neo-Calvinism and science: a Christian perspective on post-Daubert law/science relations / David S. Caudill
- Lutherans. Lutheran perspective on legal ethics / Robert W. Tuttle
- Anabaptists. Anabaptist law schools / Thomas L. Shaffer, in conversation with John Howard Yoder
- Baptists. Toleration and dogmatism: the contribution of Baptists to law / Timothy L. Hall
- pt. 3. Home-grown American faiths. Evangelicals. Evangelicals, law, and abortion / Robert F. Cochran, Jr.
- African-American churches. "Go down, Moses!": law through the eyes of the African-American religious tradition / Anthony V. Baker
- Churches of Christ. Reason, freedom, and apocalyptic vision: Churches of Christ and the practice and teaching of law / Thomas G. Bost
- Latter-Day Saints. Footings of Mormon conceptions of law: vantage points for understanding constitutional law and the law of religious freedom / W. Cole Durham, Jr., Michael K. Young, and Brett G. Scharffs
- pt. 4. Catholicism. Catholic natural law. Sovereign states? The state of the question from a Catholic perspective / Patrick McKinley Brennan
- Catholic social thought. Catholic social thought and immigration / José Roberto Juárez, Jr.
- pt. 5. Judaism. Orthodox Jews. Self-incrimination in Jewish law, with application to the American legal system / Samuel L. Levine
- Reform Jews. Reform Judaism, Bʼtzelem Ehlohim, and gay rights / Ellen P. Aprill
- pt. 6. New immigrant faiths. Hindus. Hindu perspective on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Kisor K. Chakrabarti
- Buddhists. Interdependence and victim compensation: views from Buddhist Tibet and post-9/11 United States / Rebecca R. French
- Muslims. Enhancing democracy, respecting religion: a dialogue on Islamic values and freedom of speech / Anver M. Emon.