Religion, Law and Tradition: Comparative Studies in Religious Law

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.

Introduction Andrew Huxley Chapter 1. Judaism Bernard Jackson Chapter 2. Religious claims about Biblical Law Calum Carmichael Chapter 3. Canon Law Silvio Ferrari Chapter 4. Islam Lynn Welchman & Ian Edge Chapter 5. Hinduism: Once religious, always religious? Werner Menski Chapter 6. Buddhist Law Andrew Huxley Chapter 7. Law and religion in Han China Randall Peerenboom Chapter 8. Jewish and Roman Philosophies of Law David Daube Chapter 9. Religious systems Jacques Vanderlinden