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Faith and Law : how religious traditions from Calvinism to Islam view American law
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Faith and Law : how religious traditions from Calvinism to Islam view American law

Author: Robert F Cochran
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, ©2008.
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Features legal scholars from sixteen different religious traditions who contend that religious discourse has an important function in the making, practice, and adjudication of American law, not least  Read more...

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Faith and Law.
New York : New York University Press, c2008
(OCoLC)607731854
Online version:
Faith and Law.
New York : New York University Press, c2008
(OCoLC)608183230
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robert F Cochran
ISBN: 9780814716724 0814716725 9780814716731 0814716733
OCLC Number: 154308966
Description: xi, 299 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Augustine and law / Elizabeth Mensch --
Neo-Calvinism and science : a Christian perspective on Post-Daubert law/science relations / David S. Caudill --
A Lutheran perspective on legal ethics / Robert W. Tuttle --
Anabaptist law schools / Thomas L. Shaffer and John Howard Yoder --
Toleration and dogmatism : the contribution of Baptists to law / Timothy L. Hall --
Evangelicals, law, and abortion / Robert F. Cochran, Jr. --
"Go down, moses!": law through the eyes of the African-American religious tradition / Anthony V. Baker --
Reason, freedom, and apocalyptic vision : Churches of Christ and the practice and teaching of law / Thomas G. Bost --
Footings of Mormon conceptions of law : vantage points for understanding constitutional law and the law of religious freedom / W. Cole Durham, Jr., Michael K. Young, and Brett G. Scharffs --
Sovereign states? the state of the question from a Catholic perspective / Patrick Brennan --
Catholic social thought and immigration / Jose Roberto Juarez, Jr --
Self-incrimination in Jewish law, with application to the American legal system / Samuel L. Levine --
Reform Judaism / Betzelem Ehlohim, and gay rights / Ellen P. Aprill --
A Hindu perspective on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Kisor K. Chakrabarti --
Interdependence and victim compensation : views from Buddhist Tibet and post-9/11 USA / Rebecca R. French --
Enhancing democracy, respecting religion : a dialogue on Islamic values and freedom of speech / Anver M. Emon.
Responsibility: edited by Robert F. Cochran, Jr.
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<p>"This timely book urges readers to look at the courthouse 'from a faith context .' [A]n exciting picture of the relationship between pluralistic faiths and law."<br>-"Choice",

 
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