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Abstract: In this contribution to the 10th anniversary of the ERPL (Ghent 2003), the author develops a vision of how comparative law can work through cases. He gives examples of the way English Courts have resorted to foreign case law throughout the last decade, as is for instance illustrated by the Fairchild case. In his view, the use of foreign case law must be focused not diffuse and thus, have a practical aim. In addition, foreign law needs to be packaged in the proper way in order to make it both interesting and useful. He refutes the objection that this method may work for the common law, but not for continental systems. Finally, he illustrates the impact of foreign law on law reform projects with the example of Germany.

Chapter 1: Informal Institutions, Unoffical Laws and Legal Hybridity in Turkey -- Chapter 2: Informal Laws, Islamist Legal Hybridity and Its Producers -- Chapter 3: Towards an Islamist Hybrid Family Law -- Chapter 4: Sharia, Legal Hybridity, and Islamization of Social Life -- Chapter 5: Islamist Legal Hybridity on Economy -- Chapter 6: Islamist Informal Laws on Corruption -- Chapter 7: Islamist Legal Hybridity on Government and Opposition -- Chapter 8: Authoritarianism, Informal Law, and Legal Hybridity.

"Die folgende Darstellung wird zunächst einen Überblick über die Religionsvorlesungen geben (1.) und im Anschluss daran die historische Plausibilität der These Constants unterstreichen, dass die Glaubensfreiheit im Zuge der Versuche zur Wiederbelebung der Freiheit der Alten bedroht war (2.). Schließlich soll gezeigt werden, dass diese Reden die fundamentale Schwäche eines allein ökonomisch begründeten Liberalismus herausstellen (3.). Während der erste Teil der Arbeit eher historischer Natur ist, finden sich im zweiten Teil philosophische Erwägungen. Auf diese Weise soll untermauert werden, dass der Vortrag Über die Freiheit der Alten und der Modernen, der als grundlegend für das Verständnis der Grundlinien und Spannungen des politischen Denkens im 19. Jahrhundert gilt, unvollständig ist ohne die Ideen, die Constant bereits ein Jahr zuvor entwickelt hat - dass folglich die Motive am Grunde der Entwicklung des Liberalismus mit religiöser Freiheit und dem positiven Ziel der menschlichen Selbstentwicklung verbunden sind." (Textauszug)

ObjectiveThis article explores how religion affects the extent to which individuals connect their ideological to partisan identities—a process termed partisan‐ideological sorting.MethodTo explore this relationship, I analyze data from the American National Election Studies (ANES) Time‐Series surveys and the Youth‐Parent Socialization (YPS) panel study.ResultsI find that a matrix of belief, belonging, and behavior constrains the convergence between citizens' political identities, with one important caveat: evangelical affiliation functions as the primary conduit through which religiosity shapes this sorting. Building on these results, I then estimate the direct impact of religion on sorting over time.ConclusionThese findings show that religion has produced asymmetric sorting in the mass public among persons with right‐leaning identities. Further, they provide a social explanation for partisan‐ideological sorting that complements extant institutional ones.

Religious crosses the spheres of both the private life and the public institution. In a liberal democracy, public and private interests and goals prove to be inseparable. Clarke Cochran's interdisciplinary study brings political theory and the sociology of religion together in a fresh interpretation of liberal culture. First published in 1990, this analysis begins with a reassessment of the nature of the ""public"" and the ""private"" in relation to the political. The controversy over religion and politics is examined in light of such contested issues of political life as sexuality, abortion

Abstract: This paper examines the mediating role that education plays between religion and democratic community. The paper is situated in the Canadian context and examines this mediation through two questions: First, what is the relationship between religion and education and what is the contribution of this relationship to and within a pluralist society? And, second, do schools have a responsibility in developing a unified model of who the citizen is as a person? Both questions are founded upon the premise that citizens are more than citizens, they are also persons.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Foreground: revolutionary times? -- Critical times -- critical scholarship -- A materialist approach to international law -- Revolutions of all shapes and sizes -- The structure of the book -- Why law anyway? -- 1 Revolution and revolutionary praxis -- I: Introduction -- II: Revolution in existing scholarship -- III: The conceptual history of revolution -- IV: Marxist revolution - political and social -- bourgeois and proletarian -- V: Revolutionary agency -- VI: Conclusion -- 2 International law and international legal praxis -- I: Introduction -- II: The ambiguous promise of international law -- III: The politics of law and fundamental legal indeterminacy -- IV: Pashukanis and the commodity form theory of law -- V: The brutal heart of law -- VI: Revolutionary praxis in law -- VII: Conclusion -- 3 The Soviet relationship to international law -- I: Introduction -- II: Background - revolution, foreign policy and the law -- III: The Soviet 'approach' to international law -- IV: The view from without -- V: Common international legal practice? -- VI: Understanding the Soviet 'approach' -- VII: Revolutionary legal praxis and the Soviet example -- VIII: Conclusion -- 4 The Third World and the New International Economic Order -- I: Introduction -- II: Background -- III: The Third World relationship to international law -- IV: Bandung -- Non-Aligned Movement and the G77 -- UNCTAD -- V: OPEC: commodities, commodity booms and oil - the exception -- VI: Resolutions -- VII: Revolutionary legal praxis and the Third World - an assessment -- VIII: Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Counter-revolutionary times -- The importance of reclaiming revolution -- The possibility of revolutionary praxis as legal praxis -- Fundamental legal relations.

This book contains a collection of articles written mostly by Hungarian authors covering developments in the field of international law and EU law, as well as the progress in domestic implementation and application of these fields of law. The thematic chapter on the significance of EU values, authored, among others, by renowned international experts, gives an in-depth analysis of a current issue of international law or European law. It also contains numerous articles analyzing well-known Hungary-related cases and their assessment from the perspective of Hungarian legal experts. The book offers

"Europa - Bildung - Religion", dieser Zusammenhang erfährt bislang in Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit, aber auch in Politik und Kirche noch nicht die Aufmerksamkeit, die ihm auf Grund seines zunehmenden sachlichen Gewichts zukommt. Schon die Frage, was Europa für die Bildung und was die Bildung für Europa bedeuten soll, steht in der jeweils nationalen Bildungsdiskussion eher am Rande. Wird das Begriffspaar von"Europa und Bildung"dann um den Begriff"Religion"erweitert, fällt der entsprechende Befund noch dürftiger aus. Das Thema wird beleuchtet aus der Perspektive christlichen Glaubens und der Kirchen in Europa, und der (europäischen) Bildungspolitik. Der Band enthaelt Beitraege von James Barnett/Frankreich, Oberkirchenrat Harald Bewersdorff und Landeskirchenrat Dieter Boge, Staatssekretaer a.D. Wolf-Michael Catenhusen, Oberkirchenrat Dr. Juergen Frank, Joachim Happel, Oberkirchenraetin Antje Heider-Rottwilm und Oberkirchenrat Reiner Rinne, Bischof Dr. Wolfgang Huber, Prof. Dr. Eilert Herms, Prof. Dr. Robert Jackson/England, Kardinal Karl Lehmann, Eckhart Marggraf, Dr. Helena Miller/England, Prof. Dr. Flavio Pajer/Italien, Peter Schreiner, Dr. Pille Valk/Estland, Prof. Dr. Jean-Paul Willaime/Frankreich, Prof. Dr. Friedrich Schweitzer, Kultusministerin Karin Wolff.

Asian American Religions brings together some of the most current research on Asian American religions from a social science perspective. The volume focuses on religion in Asian American communities in New York, Houston, Los Angeles, and the Silicon Valley/Bay Area, and it includes a current demographic overview of the various Asian populations across the United States. It also provides information on current trends, such as that Filipino and Korean Americans are the most religiously observant people in America, that over 60 percent of Asian Americans who have a religious identification are Christian, and that one-third of Muslims in the United States are Asian Americans. Rather than organizing the book around particular ethnic groups or religions, Asian American Religions centers on thematic issues, like symbols and rituals, political boundaries, and generation gaps, in order to highlight the role of Asian American religions in negotiating, accepting, redefining, changing, and creating boundaries in the communities' social life.

The Canadian case-law figure of reasonable accommodation has not found a favourable reception in the Spanish Case-law. Proof of this is the STC 19/1985 judgement of the Spanish Constitutional Court, which affirms that the giving of a different weekly rest because of a religious belief would be a reasonable exception, but it is not imperative for the entrepreneur to grant it. Accommodation is not compulsory neither for Canadian courts, since this obligation to accommodate must be within the limits of "reasonability". Even if several justified reasons can be put forward to refuse the accommodation, Canadian courts opt for the imposition of this legal duty to reconcile religious practice demands with labour market needs. Taking into consideration that accommodation does not happen spontaneously and that bona fide in labour relations is not enough, it is advisable to look for good practices in comparative Law to deal with this kind of conflicts.Published online: 11 December 2017

"This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars discuss the role played by religion in philosophy; the emergence and possibilities of the category of religion; and the relation between religion and violence, secularism, and sovereignty. Together, they provide a synoptic view of how de Vries's work has prompted a reconceptualization of how religion should be studied, especially in relation to theology, politics, and new media. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of religious studies, theology, and philosophy"--