Law and Religion
About the Book Series
The practice of religion by individuals and groups, the rise of religious diversity, and the fear of religious extremism, raise profound questions for the interaction between law and religion in society. The regulatory systems involved, the religion laws of secular government (national and international) and the religious laws of faith communities, are valuable tools for our understanding of the dynamics of mutual accommodation and the analysis and resolution of issues in such areas as: religious freedom; discrimination; the autonomy of religious organisations; doctrine, worship and religious symbols; the property and finances of religion; religion, education and public institutions; and religion, marriage and children. In this series, scholars at the forefront of law and religion contribute to the debates in this area. The books in the series are analytical with a key target audience of scholars and practitioners, including lawyers, religious leaders, and others with an interest in this rapidly developing discipline.
Series Editor
Professor Norman Doe is Director of the Centre for Law and Religion, which he set up at Cardiff Law School in 1998.
Editorial Board
Carmen Asiaín is a Law Professor at University of Montevideo (Uruguay).
Paul Babie is Professor and Associate Dean (International), Adelaide Law School.
Pieter Coertzen is the chairperson of the Unit for the Study of Law and Religion in the Beyers Naudé Center for Public Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Stellenbosch.
Alison Mawhinney is a Reader in Law at Bangor University.
Michael John Perry is a Senior Fellow at Emory University’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion and has held a Robert W. Woodruff University Chair there since 2003.
Jurisprudence and Theology: The Australian School
1st Edition
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By Jonathan Crowe, Constance Youngwon Lee, Joshua Neoh
November 27, 2025
In recent years, a distinctive approach to law and religion scholarship has developed in Australia, characterised by direct engagement with theology in addressing legal and jurisprudential questions. This collection consolidates and develops this approach under the label of the ‘Australian School’ ...
Christianity and the Making of Irish Law: Violence, Virtue, and Reason
1st Edition
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By David H. McIlroy
November 18, 2025
For almost two millennia, the island of Ireland has continued to have an impact on European and English-speaking Christianity and culture out of all proportion to its size and position. This volume looks at key Irish figures, beyond lawyers and judges, whose ideas have impacted on the way law is ...
The Legal System of the Vatican City State: Between Secular and Canon Law
1st Edition
By Konrad Dyda
October 24, 2025
This book examines one of the fundamental phenomena in jurisprudence, Legal Transplants (reception of law), the study of which allows us both to determine the relationships between various legal systems and between civil law and other normative systems. Taking the Vatical City State as a case study...
Legal Thought and Eastern Orthodox Christianity: The Addresses of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
1st Edition
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By Norman Doe, Aetios Nikiforos
April 14, 2025
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians worldwide, has thought profoundly about the role of law as it applies to the church, to civic life in Europe, to human rights, to religious freedom, and to the environment. In this book, leading scholars across ...
The Legal Legacy of the Reformation: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law
1st Edition
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By John Duddington
November 25, 2024
The growing interest in the relationship between religion and law is, in the case of Christianity, often viewed in monolithic terms. Moreover, the debate is often seen in terms of the relationship of Christianity to the state along with discussions about, for example, religious freedom. ...
Democracy, Religion, and Commerce: Private Markets and the Public Regulation of Religion
1st Edition
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By Kathleen Flake, Nathan B. Oman
October 07, 2024
This collection considers the relationship between religion, state, and market. In so doing, it also illustrates that the market is a powerful site for the cultural work of secularizing religious conflict. Though expressed as a simile, with religious freedom functioning like market freedom, “free ...
Christianity, Ethics and the Law: The Concept of Love in Christian Legal Thought
1st Edition
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By Zachary R. Calo, Joshua Neoh, A. Keith Thompson
August 26, 2024
This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought. The work introduces love as a way to advance the emergent conversation between constructive theology and jurisprudence that will also inform conversations in philosophy and political theory. Love is the central category for Christian ...
Law and Christianity in Poland: The Legacy of the Great Jurists
1st Edition
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By Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier, Rafael Domingo
August 26, 2024
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the Polish history of law and Christianity written in English for a global audience. It examines the lives of twenty-one central figures in Polish law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their ...
Christianity and the Law of Migration
1st Edition
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By Silas W. Allard, Kristin Heyer, Raj Nadella
May 31, 2023
This collection brings together legal scholars and Christian theologians for an interdisciplinary conversation responding to the challenges of global migration. Gathering 14 leading scholars from both law and Christian theology, the book covers legal perspectives, theological perspectives, ...
Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia
1st Edition
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By Paul Valliere, Randall Poole
May 31, 2023
This book, authored by an international group of scholars, focuses on a vibrant central current within the history of Russian legal thought: how Christianity, and theistic belief generally, has inspired the aspiration to the rule of law in Russia, informed Russian philosophies of law, and shaped ...
Labour Rights and the Catholic Church: The International Labour Organisation, the Holy See and Catholic Social Teaching
1st Edition
By Paul Beckett
December 19, 2022
This book explores the extent of parallelism and cross-influence between Catholic Social Teaching and the work of the world’s oldest human rights institution, the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Sometimes there is a mutual attraction between seeming opposites who in fact share a common ...
Law and Christianity in Latin America: The Work of Great Jurists
1st Edition
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By M.C. Mirow, Rafael Domingo
September 26, 2022
This volume examines the lives of more than thirty-five key personalities in Latin American law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their countries and the region. The book is a significant contribution to our ability to understand the work and...