The book profiles some of the macro and micro factors that have impact on European religious literacy.
While working as an environmental engineer in a remote village in Pakistan, Jane Kelly¿s world implodes when she¿s framed for blasphemy. Not satisfied with the mandatory death penalty, her powerful enemies want her dead before the trial. Her two loves, Sergei and Razane, need to find a way to help her, but Razane is fighting her own demons from her troubled past as a Peshmerga fighter. With the feared Pakistani Intelligence breathing down their necks, they¿re running out of time, options, and hope. The Blasphemy Law explores the politics of terror in a rapidly changing country. It is a fast-paced thriller and an intense and unusual love story that takes readers on an unpredictable journey through dangerous but exciting Pakistan.
With the feared Pakistani Intelligence breathing down their necks, they¿re running out of time, options, and hope. The Blasphemy Law explores the politics of terror in a rapidly changing country.
The current Syrian crisis has its roots in the sectarian nature of the country's multi-religious society. Since Ottoman times, the different religious communities have enjoyed the right to regulate and administer their own family relations. Matters of personal status including marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance continue to be managed by a variety of religious laws and courts operating simultaneously within the legal system of the state. However, this complex system of competing jurisdictions has also affected inter-communal relations and has been used to deepen communal divides. Esther van Eijk discusses socio-legal practices in Syria by focusing on three courts: a shar?iyya, a Catholic court and a Greek-Orthodox court
Esther van Eijk discusses socio-legal practices in Syria by focusing on three courts: a shar?iyya, a Catholic court and a Greek-Orthodox court
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"Comparative law of religions has developed in recent years as a new discipline at the intersection of legal and religious science, of theology and anthropology. This book presents a systematic theoretical basis for this new discipline. While law is mostly associated with the state, many religions also have their own internal law. These internal legal norms are aimed at a particular form of behaviour on the part of believers. They therefore play a particular role in conflicts arising today between certain religious forms of behaviour. The comparison of the internal law of religions serves to establish and explain the commonalities and differences between various religious legal traditions. The religions examined here include: the law of Christian denominations, Jewish law, Islamic law, Hindu law, Buddhist law, and other religious legal systems. The work assesses six current approaches to the comparative law of religions, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses, leading to the development of a new approach. The book discusses the role of religious law in state law and looks to likely future developments"--
This book presents a systematic theoretical basis for this new discipline. While law is mostly associated with the state, many religions also have their own internal law.
The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has different salience, and is understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume examines the public/private distinction in the cultures and religions of the ancient Mediterranean, in the formative periods of Greece and Rome and the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
The volume examines the public/private distinction in the cultures and religions of the ancient Mediterranean, in the formative periods of Greece and Rome and the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
