Routledge handbook of religious laws /
Much has been written on specific religious legal systems, yet substantial comparative studies that strive to compare systems, identifying their analogies and differences, have been relatively few. This absence undermines the capacity to understand religions and becomes particularly serious when the...
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London :
Routledge,
2019
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| Vydání: | First published |
| Edice: | Routledge international handbooks
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Routledge handbook of religious laws |
Obsah:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Introduction: religious laws and their comparison
- theoretical and methodological issues; The nature of religious laws; Comparative religious law; Further reading; Notes; References; PART I: History; Chapter 1: The Jewish tradition: a history; History; Jewish; Law; The Bible: a covenantal law; The Second Temple Period: an ethnic law; Late Antiquity: jurists' imagined law; The Middle Ages: divine law; The Modern era: law, religion and identity; The twentieth century: law, nationalism and politics; Conclusion
- NotesChapter 2: The Christian tradition: a history; Origins; Historical evolution; Further reading; References; Chapter 3: The Islamic tradition: a history; Origins; The development of the madhhabs; The basis for the law; The law, the scholars and the state; The modern period; Reintroduction of 'the Sharī?a'; References; Chapter 4: The Hindu tradition: a history; Introduction; Origins of Hindu law; Historical evolution; Central characteristics; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Comparative remarks: a history of religious laws; References; PART II: Sources of law
- Chapter 6: Jewish law: the sourcesVariations of meaning and function; 'Source' and 'resource'; The biblical paradigm: strong epiphanism; Grappling with the biblical model in Late Antiquity; Judeo-Hellenic parallelism; Rabbinic ambivalence: the human source celebrated and denied; Medieval Judaism: traditionalism and human reason; Perfect transmission; Reasoning and rationality; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Christian law: the sources; Various denominations and their legal concepts; Legislation on the international, national and local level; Instruments of regulation; Subject matters
- InterpretationRole of theology; Natural law and divine law; Mechanisms of legal change; Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 8: Islamic law: the sources; Formulation of the law from the sources; The legal literature; Natural law, human law and divine law in the Sharī?a; Opening the gates of ijtihād; Modernity and the sources of revelation; References; Chapter 9: Hindu law: the sources; Complexity of sources in Hindu law; The classical theory of sources; Interpretation and sources in practice; Modern sources; Conclusion; Notes; References
- Chapter 10: Comparative remarks: the sources of religious lawsIntroduction; Comparing Christian sources and other religious sources; Human agency and the sources of religious laws; Religious laws and the State; Conclusion; Notes; References; PART III: Dynamics of belonging and status; Chapter 11: Jewish law: dynamics of belonging and status; Introduction; Entering the religion; Leaving the religion; Rights and obligations of adherents; Further reading; Notes; References; Chapter 12: Christian law: dynamics of belonging and status; The people of God; The concept of church membership