Having found that the presence of the secular symbols of Christmas does not mute the religious message of the crèche, the Court concludes that people who view the Hodgson Park display are not likely to regard the nativity scene as a ...
The text and its continually updated online Supplement support courses on Law and Religion, Church and State, International Human Rights, Comparative Constitutional Law, and First Amendment.
The text and its continually updated online Supplement support courses on Law and Religion, Church and State, International Human Rights, Comparative Constitutional Law, and First Amendment.
This book also offers approaches to the relationship between Church(es) and State(s) in the early modern period and to the practical as well as doctrinal use of natural law in both Protestant and Catholic lands.
This volume consists of nineteen previously-published articles written by leading international scholars on various aspects of law and religion. The volume looks at law and religion in the context of...
Students can track key developments on the book's updating website. This innovative text is essential reading for all students in the field.
Twenty-two scholars of law, ethics, philosophy, and religion address the relationship between law and religion in America, offering insights into how religion relates to the public sphere, the Supreme Court, and liberal political theory.
With an emphasis on common law traditions, this book will be essential reading for researchers and advanced students of law and religion.
In giving voice to the political left and right, as well as to cultural, philosophical, sociological and historical perspectives, the book serves as an even-handed treatment of an issue all too often clouded by biases.
Designed to be used either as a primary text or with any Law and Religion or First Amendment text, Law and Religion: Cases in Context presents descriptions and discussions of...
With an emphasis on common law traditions, this book will be essential reading for researchers and advanced students of law and religion.
Law and Religion
The second edition continues the book's interdisciplinary approach to law and religion, including background materials about the religions involved in the cases and readings about comparative religion.
This is the fourth volume of the Current Legal Issues series. Here, contributors discuss a host of issues related to the interaction of religious practice and law. Both common and...