ICLARS Series on Law and Religion
About the Book Series
The ICLARS Series on Law and Religion is designed to provide a forum for the rapidly expanding field of research in law and religion. The series is published in association with the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, an international network of scholars and experts of law and religion founded in 2007 with the aim of providing a place where information, data and opinions can easily be exchanged among members and made available to the broader scientific community (www.iclars.org). The series aims to become a primary source for students and scholars while presenting authors with a valuable means to reach a wide and growing readership.
The series editors are currently welcoming proposals for this new series on any matter falling under ‘law and religion’ widely defined. Collections arising from important conferences and events are welcome as well as monographs by both established names and new voices (including monographs based on doctoral dissertations). Also of interest are interdisciplinary works and studies of particular jurisdictions.
Regulating Religion: State Governance of Religious Institutions in South Africa
1st Edition
By Helena Van Coller
March 31, 2021
This book focuses on government regulation of religious institutions in South Africa. PART 1 explains the meaning of government regulation for religious communities by providing a brief overview of the relationship between church and state, the right to freedom of religion and the legal status of ...
Religious Rights within the Family: From Coerced Manifestation to Dispute Resolution in France, England and Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Esther Erlings
March 31, 2021
It is often asserted that ‘A family that prays together, stays together’. But what if a child no longer wishes to pray? This book analyses the law in relation to situations where parents force their children to manifest the parental religion. From thorough examination of international law it ...
Atheist Exceptionalism: Atheism, Religion, and the United States Supreme Court
1st Edition
By Ethan Quillen
August 14, 2020
Due to its Constitution, and particularly to that Constitution’s First Amendment, the relationship between religion and politics in the United States is rather unusual. This is especially the case concerning the manner with which religious terminology is defined via the discourse adopted by the ...
Church and State in Scotland: Developing law
1st Edition
By Francis Lyall
June 30, 2020
The interaction of faith and the community is a fundamental of modern society. The first country to adopt Presbyterianism in its national church, Scotland adopted a system of church government, which is now in world-wide use. This book examines the development and current state of Scots law. ...
Islam and Women's Income: Dowry and Law in Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Farah Deeba Chowdhury
June 30, 2020
This book examines the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary Bangladesh. It explores the role of Islam in society and politics generally, and its influence on gender equality in particular. The work focuses on the situation of married women. ...
Lutheran Theology and Secular Law: The Work of the Modern State
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie A. Failinger, Ronald W. Duty
June 30, 2020
This collection brings together lawyers and theologians in the U.S. and Europe to reflect on Lutheran understandings of the political use of the law by secular governments. The book furthers the intellectual conversation about how Lutheran insights can be used to develop jurisprudence and specific ...
Religion, Pluralism, and Reconciling Difference
1st Edition
Edited
By W. Cole Durham, Jr., Donlu D Thayer
June 30, 2020
We live in an increasingly pluralized world. This sociological reality has become the irreversible destiny of humankind. Even once religiously homogeneous societies are becoming increasingly diverse. Religious freedom is modernity’s most profound if sometimes forgotten answer to the resulting ...
Religious Literacy, Law and History: Perspectives on European Pluralist Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Alberto Melloni, Francesca Cadeddu
June 30, 2020
The book profiles some of the macro and micro factors that have impact on European religious literacy. It seeks to understand religious illiteracy and its effects on the social and political milieu through the framing of the historical, institutional, religious, social, juridical and educational ...
Religious Freedom and the Law: Emerging Contexts for Freedom for and from Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Brett G. Scharffs, Asher Maoz, Ashley Isaacson Woolley
January 14, 2020
This volume presents a timely analysis of some of the current controversies relating to freedom for religion and freedom from religion that have dominated headlines worldwide. The collection trains the lens closely on select issues and contexts to provide detailed snapshots of the ways in which ...
Law and International Religious Freedom: The Rise and Decline of the American Model
1st Edition
By Pasquale Annicchino
December 12, 2019
This book analyzes the promotion and protection of freedom of religion in the international arena with a particular focus on the role and influence of the US International Religious Freedom Act, 1998. It also investigates the impact of the IRFA on the legislation and policies of third countries and...
Free Exercise of Religion and the United States Constitution: The Supreme Court’s Challenge
1st Edition
By Mark P. Strasser
November 08, 2019
The United States is extremely diverse religiously and, not infrequently, individuals sincerely contend that they are unable to act in accord with law as a matter of conscience. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the free exercise of religion and the United States ...
Islam, Law and the Modern State: (Re)imagining Liberal Theory in Muslim Contexts
1st Edition
By Arif A. Jamal
November 08, 2019
Within the global phenomenon of the (re)emergence of religion into issues of public debate, one of the most salient issues confronting contemporary Muslim societies is how to relate the legal and political heritage that developed in pre-modern Islamic polities to the political order of the modern ...