After Secular Law.
Title:
After Secular Law.
Author:
Sullivan, Winnifred.
ISBN:
9780804780704
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (308 pages)
Series:
The Cultural Lives of Law
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Histories of the Legal Secular -- 1. Moses' Veil: Secularization as Christian Myth -- 2. Secular Law and the Realm of False Religion -- 3. Assenting to the Law: Sacrifice and Punishment at the Dawn of Secularism -- 4. National Security and Secularization in the English Revolution of 1688 -- 5. "Intolerance of Intolerance" in the Unitarian Controversy: The Theology of Baker v. Fales -- 6. The University and the Advent of the Academic Secular: The State's Management of Public Instruction -- 7. Stasiology: Political Theology and the Figure of the Sacrificial Enemy -- 8. Against Sovereign Impunity: The Political Theology of the International Criminal Court -- Part II: Ethnographies of the Legal Secular -- 9. Sovereign Power and Secular Indeterminacy: Is Egypt a Secular or a Religious State? -- 10. The Ruse of Law: Legal Equality and the Problem of Citizenship in a Multireligious Sudan -- 11. The Religio-Secular Continuum: Reflections on the Religious Dimensions of Turkish Secularism -- 12. "The Spirits Were Always Watching": Buddhism, Secular Law, and Social Change in Thailand -- 13. Secular Speech and Popular Passions: The Antinomies of Indian Secularism -- 14. Courting Culture: Unexpected Relationships between Religion and Law in Contemporary Hawai'i -- 15. The Peculiar Stake U.S. Protestants Have in the Question of State Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages -- 16. Sacred Property: Searching for Value in the Rubble of 9/11 -- 17. When Is Religion, Religion, and a Knife, a Knife-and Who Decides?: The Case of Denmark -- Index.
Abstract:
Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular. Yet recent scholarship has called into question the simplistic narrative of a separation between law and religion and blurred the boundaries between these two categories, enabling new accounts of their relation that do not necessarily either collapse them together or return law to a religious foundation. This work gives special attention to the secularism of law, exploring how law became secular, the phenomenology of the legal secular, and the challenges that lingering religious formations and other aspects of globalization pose for modern law's self-understanding. Bringing together scholars with a variety of perspectives and orientations, it provides a deeper understanding of the interconnections between law and religion and the unexpected histories and anthropologies of legal secularism in a globalizing modernity.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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