The relationship between law and religion is evident throughout history. They have never been completely independent from each other. There is no doubt that religion has played an important role in providing the underlying values of modern laws, in setting the terms of the relationship between the individual ...
There is growing concern with the problems posed by dogmatic religious belief. This book explores the dynamics of religious belief, and it offers constructive criticism in order to promote the intellectual maturity of religious belief. It presents an argument that intellectual maturity requires us to acknowledge the limitations of our beliefs.
This volume addresses a central problem of contemporary states, namely how to manage the eruption of public religions. While the liberal framework formerly regarded religion as simply a matter of private practice and conscience, in modern states religion has often come to challenge the so-called Westphalian ...
