| Law and the Sacred Contributor(s): Sarat, Austin (Editor), Douglas, Lawrence (Editor), Umphrey, Martha Merrill (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0804755752 ISBN-13: 9780804755757 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $66.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2006 Annotation: "Law and the Sacred brings together original and stimulating interdisciplinary work on the complex interdependence of law and religion. Indeed, the authors expand well beyond simple categories of law and religion to explore the more interesting and novel nuances of laws of the sacred and the sacrilization of law."--David Mednicoff, University of Massachusetts "The essays in this volume push well beyond the boundaries of more familiar research on the relationship between politics and religion. Exploring topics as diverse as Islamic legal theory, the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Kafka's The Trial, and the contemporary constitution of sovereign political power, the contributors call into question any easy opposition between the sacred and the secular, and so unsettle a central myth of Enlightenment modernism."--Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, Whitman College |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Jurisprudence |
| Dewey: 340.11 |
| LCCN: 2006012939 |
| Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.42" W x 9.28" (0.90 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Law and the Sacred explores questions about the foundational role of the sacred in the constitution of law, both historically and theoretically. |