Law, religion and tradition / editors, Jessica Giles, Andrea Pin and Frank S. Ravitch.
Giles, Jessica, editor.; Pin, Andrea, editor.; Ravitch, Frank S., 1966- editor.
2018
BL65.L33
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Title
Law, religion and tradition / editors, Jessica Giles, Andrea Pin and Frank S. Ravitch.
ISBN
9783319967493 (electronic book)
3319967495 (electronic book)
9783319967486
3319967487
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96749-3
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-96749-3 doi
Call Number
BL65.L33
Dewey Decimal Classification
201.72
Summary
This book explores different theories of law, religion, and tradition, from both a secular and a religious perspective. It reflects on how tradition and change can affect religious and secular legal reasoning, identifying the patterns of legal evolution within religious and secular traditions. It is often taken for granted that, even in law, change corresponds and correlates to progress - that things ought to be changed and they will necessarily get better. There is no doubt that legal changes over the centuries have made it possible to enhance the protection of individual rights and to somewhat contain the possibility of tyranny and despotism. But progress is not everything in law: stability and certainty lie at the core of the rule of law. Similarly, religions and religious laws could not survive without traditions; and yet, they still evolve, and their evolution is often intermingled with secular law. The book asks (and in some ways answers) the questions: What is the role of tradition within religions and religious laws? What is the impact of religious traditions on secular laws, and vice-versa? How are the elements of tradition to be identified? Are they the same within the secular and the religious realm? Do secular law and religious law follow comparable patterns of change? Do their levels of resilience differ significantly? How does the history of religion and law affect changes within religious traditions and legal systems? The overall focus of the book addresses the extent to which tradition plays a role in shaping and re-shaping secular and religious laws, as well as their mutual boundaries.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 2, 2018).
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Giles, Jessica, editor.
Pin, Andrea, editor.
Ravitch, Frank S., 1966- editor.
Series
Law and religion in a global context ; v. 1.
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Law, religion and tradition.
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