Law and religion in public life : the contemporary debate / / edited by Nadirsyah Hosen and Richard Mohr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781371303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-72583-0; 1-283-24167-6; 9786613241672; 1-136-72584-9; 0-203-81696-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HosenNadirsyah; MohrRichard
• Disciplina: 342.08/52; 342.0852
• Soggetti: Freedom of religion; Religion and state; Religion and law; Public law
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Law and Religion in Public Life The contemporary debate; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Da capo: law and religion from the top; Part I Law, state and secularism; 1 Classifying church-state arrangements: beyond religious versus secular; 2 the Christian origins of secularism and the rule of law; 3 the future of secularism: a critique; Part II Religion and speech in a pluralist society; 4 Religion, multiculturalism and legal pluralism; 5 Religion and freedom of speech in australia; 6 The reasonable audience of religious hatred: the semiotic ideology of anti-vilification laws in AustraliaPart III Religion as a factor in legal processes and decisions; 7 Religion and security: what's your motive?; 8 Religion and justice: atonement as an element of justice in both western law and Christian thought; 9 Why should I do this? Private property, climate change and Christian sacrifice; Part IV Negotiating ; religious law and personal beliefs; 10 Jewish law in a modern australian context; 11 Do australian Muslims need a mufti? Analysing the institution of ifta in the Australian contextAfterword; A posteriori: The experience of religion; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: With religion at centre stage in conflicts worldwide, and in social, ethical and geo-political debates, this book takes a timely look at relations between law and religion. To what extent can religion play a role in secular legal systems? How do peoples of various faiths live successfully by both secular laws as well as their religious laws? Are there limits to freedom of religion? These questions are related to legal deliberations and broader discussions around secularism, multiculturalism, immigration, settlement and security.The book is unique in bringing together leading s

The ruins of experience [[electronic resource] ] : Scotland's "romantick" Highlands and the birth of the modern witness / / Matthew Wickman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787544903321
• Autore: Wickman Matthew
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007
• ISBN: 0-8122-0395-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/3554
• Soggetti: English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism; Evidence (Law); Experience in literature; Knowledge, Theory of; Literature - History and criticism; Scottish literature - History and criticism; Subjectivity in literature; Witnesses in literature; Highlands (Scotland) In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Texts examined include: poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel ; narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal -- Introduction. Experience and the Allure of the Improbable -- Part One. Structure -- Chapter 1. A Musket Shot and Its Echoes -- Chapter 2. Aftershocks of the Appin Murder -- Chapter 3. Evidence and Equivalence -- Chapter 4. Improvement and Apocalypse -- Part Two. Feeling -- Chapter 5. The Compulsions of Immediacy -- Chapter 6. Of Mourning and Machinery -- Chapter 7. Highland Romance in Late Modernity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: There emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe with the "primitive" Scottish Highlands. New methods for determining evidential truth, linked with the growing prominence of lawyers and a formalized division of labor between witnesses and jurors, combined to devalue the authority of witness testimony, magnifying the rupture between experience and knowledge. Juries now pronounced verdicts based not upon the certainty of direct experience but rather upon abstractions of probability or reasonable likelihood. Yet even as these changes were occurring, the Scottish Highlands and Hebridean Islands were attracting increased attention as a region where witness experience in sublime and communal forms had managed to trump enlightened progress and the probabilistic, abstract, and mediated mentality on which the Enlightenment was predicated. There, in a remote corner of Britain, natives and tourists beheld things that surpassed enlightened understanding; experience was becoming all the more alluring to the extent that it signified something other than knowledge. Matthew Wickman examines this uncanny return of experiential authority at the very moment of its supposed decline and traces the alluring improbability of experience into our own time. Thematic in its focus and cross-disciplinary in its approach, The Ruins of Experience situates the literary next to the nonliterary, the old beside the new. Wickman looks to poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives to suggest an alternative historical view of the paradoxical tensions of the Enlightenment and Romantic eras.