Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean write by Anselm C. Hagedorn. This book was released on 2013-10-31. Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How was it possible that Greeks often wrote their laws on the walls of their temples, but - in contrast to other ancient societies - never transformed these written civic laws into a religious law? Did it matter whether laws were inscribed in stone, clay, or on a scroll? And above all, how did written law shape a society in which the majority population was illiterate? This volume addresses the similarities and differences in the role played by law and religion in various societies across the Eastern Mediterranean. Bringing together a collection of 14 essays from scholars of the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Greece, the Ancient Near East, Qumran, Elephantine, the Nabateans, and the early Arab world, it also approaches these subjects in an all-encompassing manner, looking in detail at the notion of law and religion in the Eastern Mediterranean as a whole in both the geographical as well as the historical space.
Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion
Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion write by Clifford Ando. This book was released on 2015-03-10. Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has had different salience, and been understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume brings together essays from an international array of experts in law and religion, in order to examine the public/private distinction in comparative perspective. The essays focus on the cultures and religions of the ancient Mediterranean, in the formative periods of Greece and Rome and the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Particular attention is given to the private exercise of religion, the relation between public norms and private life, and the division between public and private space and the place of religion therein.
Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean
Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean write by Anselm C. Hagedorn. This book was released on 2013-10. Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume addresses the similarities and differences in the role played by law and religion in various societies across the Eastern Mediterranean. Approaching these subjects in an all-encompassing manner, it also looks at the notion of law and religion in this region as a whole, in both the geographical as well as the historical space.
Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage
Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage write by Silvio Ferrari. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Going beyond the more usual focus on Jerusalem as a sacred place, this book presents legal perspectives on the most important sacred places of the Mediterranean. The first part of the book discusses the notion of sacred places in anthropological, sociological and legal studies and provides an overview of existing legal approaches to the protection of sacred places in order to develop and define a new legal framework. The second part introduces the meaning of sacred places in Jewish, Christian and Islamic thought and focuses on the significance and role that sacred places have in the three major monotheistic religions and how best to preserve their religious nature whilst designing a new international statute. The final part of the book is a detailed analysis of the legal status of key sacred places and holy cities in the Mediterranean area and identifies a set of legal principles to support a general framework within which specific legal measures can be implemented. The book concludes with a useful appendix for the protection of sacred places in the Mediterranean region. Including contributions from leading law and religion scholars, this interesting book will be valuable to those in the fields of international law, as well as religion and heritage studies.
Religions and Constitutional Transitions in the Muslim Mediterranean
Religions and Constitutional Transitions in the Muslim Mediterranean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religions and Constitutional Transitions in the Muslim Mediterranean write by Alessandro Ferrari. This book was released on 2016-09-13. Religions and Constitutional Transitions in the Muslim Mediterranean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the role of Islam and religious freedom in the constitutional transitions of six North African and Middle Eastern countries, namely Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, and Palestine. In particular, the book, with an interdisciplinary approach, investigates the role of Islam as a political, institutional and societal force. Issues covered include: the role played by Islam as a constitutional reference – a "static force" able to strengthen and legitimize the entire constitutional order; Islam as a political reference used by some political parties in their struggle to acquire political power; and Islam as a specific religion that, like other religions in the area, embodies diverse perspectives on the nature and role of religious freedom in society. The volume provides insight about the political dimension of Islam, as used by political forces, as well as the religious dimension of Islam. This provides a new and wider perspective able to take into account the increasing social pluralism of the South-Mediterranean region. By analyzing three different topics – Islam and constitutionalism, religious political parties, and religious freedom – the book offers a dynamic picture of the role played by Islam and religious freedom in the process of state-building in a globalized age in which human rights and pluralism are crucial dimensions.
