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"May 3, 1962." ; At head of title: The American Law Institute. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Can there be such a thing as a European sociology of law? The uncertainties which arise when attempting to answer that straightforward question are the subject of this book, which also overlaps into comparative law, legal history, and legal philosophy. The richness of approaches reflected in the essays (including comparisons with the US) makes this volume a courageous attempt to show the present state of socio- legal studies in Europe and map directions for its future development. Certainly we already know something about the existence of differences in the use and meaning of law within and between the nation states and groups that make up the European Union. They concern the role of judges and lawyers, the use of courts, patterns of delay, contrasts in penal 'sensibilities', or the meanings of underlying legal and social concepts. Still, similarities in 'legal culture' are at least as remarkable in societies at roughly similar levels of political and economic development. The volume should serve as a needed stimulus to a research agenda aimed at uncovering commonalities and divergences in European ways of approaching the law.

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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- chapter one. Moses' Veil Secularization as Christian Myth -- chapter two. Secular Law and the Realm of False Religion -- chapter three. Assenting to the Law -- chapter four. National Security and Secularization in the English Revolution of 1688 -- chapter five. "Intolerance of Intolerance" in the Unitarian Controversy -- chapter six. The University and the Advent of the Academic Secular -- chapter seven. Stasiology -- chapter eight. Against Sovereign Impunity -- chapter nine. Sovereign Power and Secular Indeterminacy -- chapter ten. The Ruse of Law -- chapter eleven. The Religio-Secular Continuum -- chapter twelve. "The Spirits Were Always Watching" -- chapter thirteen. Secular Speech and Popular Passions -- chapter fourteen. Courting Culture -- chapter fifteen. The Peculiar Stake U.S. Protestants Have in the Question of State Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages -- chapter sixteen. Sacred Property -- chapter seventeen. When Is Religion, Religion, and a Knife, a Knife-and Who Decides? -- Index