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Author
Title
Religion, law and society / Russell Sandberg.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Call Number
K487.C8 S26 2014
ISBN
9781107027435 (hbk.)
1107027438 (hbk.)
1107027438 (hbk.)
Description
xii, 277 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)873724375
Summary
Issues concerning religion in the public sphere are rarely far from the headlines. As a result, scholars have paid increasing attention to religion. These scholars, however, have generally stayed within the confines of their own respective disciplines. To date there has been little contact between lawyers and sociologists. Religion, Law and Society explores whether, how and why law and religion should interact with the sociology of religion. It examines sociological and legal materials concerning religion in order to find out what lawyers and sociologists can learn from each other. A groundbreaking, provocative and thought-provoking book, it is essential reading for lawyers, sociologists and all who are interested in the relationship between religion, law and society in the twenty-first century.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Table of Contents
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
x
1.
The new world
1
Everything changes
1
Towards an interdisciplinary approach
10
Constructed histories
11
Beyond academic isolationism
23
Case study: defining religion or belief
28
The problem of defining religion or belief
30
The effect of defining religion or belief
38
Reflection
48
2.
The secularisation thesis
53
A premature obituary
53
Secularisation at the societal level
58
The three core processes
63
The secularisation paradigm
72
Secularisation at the individual level
75
Individualism
78
Compartmentalisation
80
Reflection
83
3.
Secularisation within religious groups
86
The Canterbury tales
86
Internal secularisation
89
The five phases
90
The role of law
96
Case study: the employment status of ministers of religion
103
The twentieth-century case law
105
The twenty-first-century case law
108
Reflection
119
4.
Questioning the secularisation thesis
121
Coupling
121
Questioning secularisation in the West
124
The big mistake
125
General revisions
131
Questioning secularisation in England and Wales
137
Vicariousness
140
Associated declines
149
Reflection
154
5.
Beyond secularisation
158
The war games
158
The `subjective turn'
161
The death of deference
167
The crises of trust
181
Case study: Eweida and Others v. United Kingdom
195
The domestic decisions
198
The Strasbourg judgment
204
Reflection
213
6.
A new dawn
217
Religion law rises
217
Questioning a sociology of law and religion
224
The power of three
227
The role of the sociology of law
237
Beyond a sociology of law and religion
242
The distinct contribution of sociology
252
The distinct contribution of law
255
Journey's end
263
Index
271