Search Results - "secularism"

Challenging the secular state the Islamization of law in modern Indonesia / by Salim, Arskal

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Church, state, and the crisis in American secularism by Ledewitz, Bruce, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Using the higher law establishment clause to save secularism.…”
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The wheel of law India's secularism in comparative constitutional context / by Jacobsohn, Gary J., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Three models of secular constitutional design -- pt. 2. Constitutional perspectives on the challenges to secularism in India.…”
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Muslims : why Muslims Sharia Law / by Boer, Jan H.

Subjects: “…Islamic law--Nigeria Islam and secularism--Nigeria.…”

Fighting over God : a legal and political history of religious freedom in Canada / by Buckingham, Janet Epp

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Judicial power and national politics courts and gender in the religious-secular conflict in Israel / by Woods, Patricia J., 1967-

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Women, the Koran and international human rights law the experience of Pakistan / by Shah, Niaz A.

“…Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights ;…”
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Religious legal traditions, international human rights law and Muslim states by Hashemi, Kamran

“…Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights ;…”
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State-religion relationships and human rights law towards a right to religiously neutral governance / by Temperman, Jeroen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Religious states, state religions & state churches -- State support & state acknowledgement of religion -- Accommodation of religions & non-identification -- Secularism & separation of state and religion -- Secular state ideologies & negative identification -- Preliminary legal questions concerning establishment of religion and state atheism -- Religious laws & the state -- State entanglement with religion & the equal religious rights of others, freedom of expression, freedom of association and equal employment opportunities -- Religion & education -- Religion & politics -- Towards religiously neutral governance.…”
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Religious confession privilege at the common law by Thompson, A. K. (Anthony Keith)

“…Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights ;…”
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Law and religion a critical anthology /

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Fictions of justice the International criminal court and the challenges of legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa / by Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing fictions : moral economies in the tribunalization of violence -- Crafting the victim, crafting the perpetrator : new spaces of power, new specters of justice -- Multiple spaces of justice : Uganda, the International Criminal Court and the politics of inequality -- "Religious" and "secular" micropractices : the roots of secular law, the political content of radical Islamic beliefs -- "The hand will go to hell" : Islamic law and the crafting of the spiritual self -- Islamic sharia at the crossroads : human rights challenges and the strategic translation of vernacular imaginaries.…”
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Islamic jurisprudence in the classical era by Calder, Norman

Table of Contents: “…The Ḥanafi law on fornication -- Nawawi ānd the typologies of fiqh writing -- Scholars, muftis, judges, and secular power : the need for distinctions -- The social function of fatwas.…”
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The constitution of religious freedom God, politics, and the First Amendment / by Goldford, Dennis J., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Constitutional fundamentals -- Religious minorities, religious freedom, and religion -- Conventional vs. radical establishment clause jurisprudence -- Orthodoxy and neutrality -- The concept of coercion in establishment clause jurisprudence -- The concept of position taking in establishment clause jurisprudence -- The theoretical core of the establishment clause : the secularity principle.…”
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Constitutional Law, Religion and Equal Liberty The Impact of Desecularization. by Tadjdini, Azin

Table of Contents: “…3.1.4 Constitutional rights and limitations to equal liberty3.2 The development towards constitutional secularity in theory and practice; 3.2.1 Constitutional secularity as a principle of governance; 3.2.2 Constitutional secularity as an idea; 3.2.3 Constitutional secularity in constitutional developments; 3.2.4 Constitutional secularity and international human rights law; Part III The past, the present, and the perhaps: constitutional desecularization in context; Chapter 4 Political change and constitutional change in Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq; 4.1 The constitutional past…”
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Law and religion in theoretical and historical context /

Table of Contents: “…/ Ruth Gavison and Nahshon Perez -- Australian legal procedures and the protection of secret aboriginal spiritual beliefs : a fundamental conflict / Ernst Willheim -- Secular and religious conscientious exemptions : between tolerance and equality / Yossi Nehushtan -- Law's sacred and secular subjects / Ngaire Naffine -- Freedom of religion and the European Convention on Human Rights : approaches, trends, and tensions / Malcolm D. …”
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Regional variations in matrimonial law and custom in Europe, 1150-1600

Table of Contents: “…Reynolds -- Separation and marital property in late medieval England and the Franco-Belgian region / Monique Vleeschouwers-Van Melkebeek -- Widows, property, and law in Lithuania and some other countries / Jurgita Kunsmanaite -- Images of marriage : a comparison of law, custom and practice in medieval Europe / Anthony Musson -- A regional cluster : Italian secular laws on abduction, forced and clandestine marriage (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) / Trevor Dean -- Forfeiting the marriage portion : punishing female adultery in the secular courts of England and Italy / Caroline Dunn -- Marriage disputes in the consistorial court of freising in the -- Late Middle Ages / Kirsi Salonen -- Marriage causes in late medieval Sweden : the evidence of Bishop Hans Brask's register (1522-27) / Mia Korpiola -- The marriage process in the light of family correspondence : a comparative perspective on the Swedish evidence / Anu Lahtinen -- Rituals before tribunals in renaissance Italy : continuity and change, 1400-1600 / Cecilia Cristellon and Silvana Seidel Menchi -- Conclusion : comparative approaches to marriage in the later Middle Ages / Charles Donahue, Jr.…”
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Gender, religion, & family law theorizing conflicts between women's rights and cultural traditions /

Table of Contents: “…McClain -- From religious "right" to civil "wrong" : using Israeli tort law to unravel the knots of gender, equality, and Jewish divorce / Susan Weiss -- Flirting with god in western secular courts : mahr in the west / Pascale Fournier -- Muslim family law in South Africa : conflating the right to religion with the privileging of religion? …”
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Gender, Religion, and Family Law Theorizing Conflicts between Women’s Rights and Cultural Traditions /

Table of Contents: “…McClain -- From religious "right" to civil "wrong" : using Israeli tort law to unravel the knots of gender, equality, and Jewish divorce / Susan Weiss -- Flirting with god in western secular courts : mahr in the west / Pascale Fournier -- Muslim family law in South Africa : conflating the right to religion with the privileging of religion? …”
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Christianity and global law /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Francisco de Vitoria and the Global Commonwealth / Andreas Wagner -- Francisco Suárez on the Law of Nations and Just War / Henrik Lagerlund -- Alberico Gentili and the Secularization of the Law of Nations / Rafael Domingo and Giovanni Minnucci -- Johannes Althusius and the Universal Rule of Natural Laws and Rights / John Witte, Jr. -- Hugo Grotius and the Making of Modern Natural Law / Jon Miller -- Kant's Religion and Perpetual Peace / Lawrence Pasternack -- Jacques Maritain and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / William Sweet -- Robert Schuman and the Process of European Integration / Rafael Domingo -- Christianity and the Global Rule of Law / Neil Walker -- Christianity and the Principle of Dignity / Martin Schlag -- Christianity and the Principle of Equality in Global Law / Julian Rivers -- Christianity and the Principle of the Common Good / George Duke -- Christianity, Sovereignty, and Global Law / Nicholas Aroney -- Christianity and the Principle of Solidarity / Ana Marta González -- Christianity and the Principle of Subsidiarity / Thomas C. …”
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