Law and Religion: Current Legal Issues Volume 4

Common and civil law jurisdictions are represented in this text which looks at the relationship between law and religion. The volume discusses common hermeneutical questions faced by Islamic, Christian and Jewish traditions and the implications for religious practice over human rights.
Both common and civil law jurisdictions and a wide variety of cultural contexts are represented in this text which looks at the relationship between law and religion. In addition the volume contains contributions written from a wide variety of faith perspectives (Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Ba'hai) as well as from a secular perspective. Contributors discuss a series of difficult and important issues from the interaction in contemporary societies of law and religious practice to the coherence of the notion of the soul and of the scope and limits of our concept of religion in a post modern world. A major theme of the volume is the common hermeneutical questions faced by the Islamic Christian and Jewish traditions. In addition, the implications for religious practice of the contemporary ascendancy of human rights are thoroughly and critically considered.