Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion

Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion
Author: Russell Sandberg
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1784714852

Following 9/11, increased attention has been given to the place of religion in the public sphere. Across the world, Law and Religion has developed as a sub-discipline and scholars have grappled with the meaning and effect of legal texts upon religion. The questions they ask, however, cannot be answered by reference to Law alone therefore their work has increasingly drawn upon work from other disciplines. This Research Handbook assists by providing introductory but provocative essays from experts on a range of concepts, perspectives and theories from other disciplines, which can be used to further Law and Religion scholarship.

Research Handbook on Law and Religion

Research Handbook on Law and Religion
Author: Rex Ahdar
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2018-09-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788112474

Offering an interdisciplinary, international and philosophical perspective, this comprehensive Research Handbook explores both perennial and recent legal issues that concern the modern state and its interaction with religious communities and individuals.

Research Handbook on Inequalities and Work

Research Handbook on Inequalities and Work
Author: Cynthia Forson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2024-03-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800886608

This multidisciplinary, international Research Handbook on Inequalities and Work examines disparities within contemporary working life and comes at a critical juncture of socio-historical change. As the world reels from the impact of economic insecurity, the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements, the trans liberation fight, the climate crisis and the rise of Artificial Intelligence, systemic inequalities and their impacts have been thrust into the limelight alongside the ceaseless struggle for social justice. Against this background, the Handbook provides cutting edge research studies that offers unique insight into the international nature of inequalities at work.

Constitutions and Religion

Constitutions and Religion
Author: Susanna Mancini
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2020-11-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1786439298

Constitutions and Religion is the first major reference work in the emerging field of comparative constitutional law and religion. It offers a nuanced array of perspectives on various models for the treatment of religion in domestic and supranational legal orders.

Beyond Classical Liberalism

Beyond Classical Liberalism
Author: James Dominic Rooney
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1003852416

This volume brings together diverse sets of standpoints on liberalism in an era of growing skepticism and distrust regarding liberal institutions. The essays in the volume: • Relate concerns for liberal institutions with classical themes in perfectionist politics, such as the priority of the common good in decision-making or the role of comprehensive doctrines. • Analyse how perfectionist intuitions about the political life affect our concepts of public reason or public justification. • Outline various moral duties we have toward other persons that underlie the liberal institutions or notions of rights functioning across the contemporary political landscape. • Explore various aspects of pluralism from within influential religious or philosophical traditions, applying insights from those traditions to issues in contemporary politics. The comprehensive volume will be of great interest to scholars, students, and researchers of politics, especially those in political philosophy and political theory.

Nonreligious Imaginaries of World Repairing

Nonreligious Imaginaries of World Repairing
Author: Lori G. Beaman
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2021-08-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030728811

The world is confronted with multiple intersecting crises including exploitation, inequality, political polarization and climate change. World-repairing work is vitally needed. But just at a time when humans most obviously require robust moral imaginaries on which to draw, it is no longer clear what kinds of beliefs, meanings, stories and encounters inspire them to act. We know that nonreligious identities are on the rise in numerous countries throughout the world. But with so much focus on the “non” part of nonreligion, what we don’t know is what nonreligious imaginaries actually look, sound and feel like. What do nonreligious people believe in? What stories inspire them? In what moments do they find meaning? This book seeks to answer these questions through a series of short essays exploring the nonreligious imaginaries that emerge in a range of world-repairing practices, including ethical consumption, community organizing, eating habits, and environmental activism. In so doing, the book provides a crucial contribution to two areas of increasing social and political concern: First, the need to understand not only what nonreligious people are rejecting but also their sources of meaning and action. Second, the urgent need for cultural tools for mobilizing people towards more compassionate and sustainable practices.

Law, Love and Freedom

Law, Love and Freedom
Author: Joshua Neoh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2019-07-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108427650

Moving from monasticism to constitutionalism, and from antinomianism to anarchism, this book reveals law's connection with love and freedom.

Faith in Democracy

Faith in Democracy
Author: Jonathan Chaplin
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2021-04-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334060230

What is the place of faith in public life in the UK? Beyond ‘secularism’ that seeks to relegate faith to the margins of public life, and a ‘Christian nation’ position that seeks to retain, or even regain, Christian public privilege, there is a third way. Faith in Democracy: Framing a Politics of Deep Diversity calls for an approach that maximises public space for the expression of faith-based visions within democratic fora while repudiating all traces of religious privilege. It argues for a truly conversational space, reflecting theologically on the contested concepts at the heart of the current debate about the place of faith in British public life: democracy, secularism, pluralism and public faith.

Religious Diversity in Australia

Religious Diversity in Australia
Author: Douglas Ezzy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2024-03-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1350334464

This book documents the structure of religious diversity in Australia and examines this diversity in the context of the law, migration, education, policing, the media and interfaith communities. Focusing on Melbourne and Tasmania, it articulates the benefits and opportunities of diversity, alongside the challenges that confront religious and ethnic minorities, including discrimination and structural inequalities generated by Christian and other forms of privilege. It articulates constructive strategies that are deployed, including encouraging forms of belonging, structured ways of negotiating disagreement and respectful engagement with difference. While scholars across the West are increasingly attuned to the problems and promises of growing religious diversity in a global age, in-depth empirical research on the consequences of that diversity in Australia is lacking. This book provides a rich, well-researched, and timely intervention.