The juridification of religion?

Intro -- Contents -- The Juridification of Religion? -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- 1 Unpacking Juridification -- 2 Unpacking the Relationship between Law and Religion -- An Empirical and Comparative Approach -- The Critical Approach -- Disaggregating Law and Religion -- 3 From Law and Religion to the Juridification of Religion -- 3A Constitutional Change -- Constitutive Juridifications of Religion -- Regional Tendencies in Constitutive Juridification of Religion -- Constitutive Juridification of "Religious Law" -- Issues for Further Research -- 3B The Expansion and Differentiation of Law -- Regulating Religion -- The Expansion and Differentiation of Laws on Religion -- (1) The Growth of Legal Regulation -- (2) International Legal Regulations -- Issues for Further Research -- 3C Increased Conflict Solving by Recourse to Law -- Solving Conflicts Related to Religion by Recourse to Law -- Judicial, Legal and Lay Conflict Solving Related to Religion -- The Dejuridification of Conflict Solving Related to Religion -- Issues for Further Research -- 3D Increased Judicial Power -- Indeterminacy as a Feature of Law -- Increased Judicial Power over "Religion Law" -- Increased Judicial Power over "Religious Law" -- Issues for Further Research -- 3E Legal Framing -- Conclusion.

In 'Juridification of Religion?' Helge Årsheim and Pamela Slotte explore the extent to which developments currently taking place at the interface between law and religion in domestic, regional and international law can be conceptualized as instances of larger, multidimensional processes of juridification. The book relies on an expansive notion of juridification, departing from the narrower sense of juridificiation as the gradually increasing ?colonization of the lifeworld? proposed by Jürgen Habermas in his 'Theory of Communicative Action' (1987). More specifically, the book adapts the multidimensional notion of juridification outlined by Anders Molander and Lars Christian Blichner (2008), developing it into a more context-specific notion of juridification that is attendant to the specific nature of religion as a subject matter for law