Comparative religious law: Judaism, Christianity, Islam

Doe, Norman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1464-3130 2018. Comparative religious law: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/9781316711569

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Abstract

Comparative Religious Law provides for the first time a study of the regulatory instruments of Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious organisations in Britain in light of their historical religious laws. Norman Doe questions assumptions about the pervasiveness, character and scope of religious laws, from the view that they are not or should not be recognised by civil law, to the idea that there may be a fundamental incompatibility between religious and civil law. It proposes that religious laws pervade society, are recognised by civil law, have both a religious and temporal character, and regulate wide areas of believers' lives. Subjects include sources of law, faith leaders, governance, worship and education, rites of passage, divorce and children, and religion-State relations. A Charter of 'the principles of religious law' common to all three Abrahamic faiths is proposed, to stimulate greater mutual understanding between religion and society and between the three faiths themselves.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics Law Centre for Law and Religion (CLR)
Subjects:	K Law > KD England and Wales
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	9781107167131
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2022 12:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/122417

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