After Secular Law
Winnfred F Sullivan
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Description for After Secular Law
Hardback. Bringing together scholars with a variety of perspectives and orientations, this work examines the interconnections between law and religion and the unexpected histories and anthropologies of legal secularism in a globalizing modernity. Editor(s): Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers; Yelle, Robert A.; Taussig-Rubbo, Mateo. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 677.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
The Cultural Lives of Law
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804775366
SKU
V9780804775366
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About Winnfred F Sullivan
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is Professor of Law and Director of the Law, Religion, and Culture Program at SUNY, Buffalo. Robert A. Yelle is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Memphis. Mateo Taussig-Rubbo is Associate Professor of Law at SUNY, Buffalo.
Reviews for After Secular Law
"In light of globalization and of the ethnographic and comparative turns that have characterized many path-breaking legal and religious studies in recent years, the book's ethnographies, arguably, outshine the history."—M. Christian Green, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "After Secular Law is an exciting contribution to current debates on religion, law, and the secular. It unravels assumptions about secularism ... Read more