Religion, law and tradition : comparative studies in religious law / edited by Andrew Huxley.

"Started as one of the panels at the W.G. Hart Workshop, 2000"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Andrew Huxley -- Religious claims about biblical law / Calum Carmichael -- Judaism as a religious legal system / Bernard S. Jackson -- Canon law as a religious legal system / Silvio Ferrari -- Islamic law: stuck with the state? / Lynn Welchman -- Law and religion in early China / Randall Peerenboom -- Hindu law as a 'religious' system / Werner Menski -- Buddhist law as religious system? / Andrew Huxley -- Religious law: a discussion / The Panel -- Jewish and Roman philosophies of law / David Daube -- Religious laws as systems of law -- a comparatist's view / Jacques Vanderlinden.

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This book brings together two scholarly traditions: experts in Roman, Jewish and Islamic law, an area where scholars tend to be familiar with work in each area, and experts in the legal traditions of South and East Asia, which have tended to be less interdisciplinary. The resulting mix produces new ways of looking at comparative law and legal history from a global perspective, and these essays contribute both to our understanding of comparative religion as well as comparative law.

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