Law and the Sacred / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.
Connolly, William E. contributor., contributor.; Douglas, Lawrence contributor, contributor.; Douglas, Lawrence editor.; Fitzpatrick, Peter contributor, contributor.; Katz, Marion Holmes, 1967- contributor, contributor.; Levinson, Sanford, 1941- contributor, contributor.; Sarat, Austin contributor, contributor.; Sarat, Austin editor.; Stolzenberg, Nomi, contributor, contributor.; Umphrey, Martha Merrill contributor, contributor.; Umphrey, Martha Merrill editor.
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Title
Law and the Sacred / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.
Added Author
Connolly, William E. contributor., contributor.
Douglas, Lawrence contributor, contributor.
Douglas, Lawrence editor.
Fitzpatrick, Peter contributor, contributor.
Katz, Marion Holmes, 1967- contributor, contributor.
Levinson, Sanford, 1941- contributor, contributor.
Sarat, Austin contributor, contributor.
Sarat, Austin editor.
Stolzenberg, Nomi, contributor, contributor.
Umphrey, Martha Merrill contributor, contributor.
Umphrey, Martha Merrill editor.
Douglas, Lawrence contributor, contributor.
Douglas, Lawrence editor.
Fitzpatrick, Peter contributor, contributor.
Katz, Marion Holmes, 1967- contributor, contributor.
Levinson, Sanford, 1941- contributor, contributor.
Sarat, Austin contributor, contributor.
Sarat, Austin editor.
Stolzenberg, Nomi, contributor, contributor.
Umphrey, Martha Merrill contributor, contributor.
Umphrey, Martha Merrill editor.
Imprint
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2007
Description
1 online resource (208 p.)
Series
Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
Formatted Contents Note
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Contributors
The Sacred in Law: An Introduction
The Profanity of Law
Pragmatic Rule and Personal Sanctification in Islamic Legal Theory
Our Papalist Supreme Court: Is Reformation Thinkable (or Possible)?
The Ethos of Sovereignty
The Triumph of a Departed World: Law, Modernity, and the Sacred
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
Contributors
The Sacred in Law: An Introduction
The Profanity of Law
Pragmatic Rule and Personal Sanctification in Islamic Legal Theory
Our Papalist Supreme Court: Is Reformation Thinkable (or Possible)?
The Ethos of Sovereignty
The Triumph of a Departed World: Law, Modernity, and the Sacred
Index
Summary
The specter of the sacred always haunts the law, even in the most resolute of contemporary secular democracies. Indeed, the more one considers the question of the relation between law and the sacred, the more it appears that endless debate over the proper relationship of government to religion is only the most "idian example of a problematic that lies at the heart of law itself. And currently, as some in the United States grapple with the seeming fragility of secular democracy in the face of threatening religious fundamentalisms, the question has gained a particular urgency. This book explores questions about the fundamental role of the sacred in the constitution of law, historically and theoretically. It examines contemporary efforts to separate law from the sacred and asks: How did the division of law and sacred come to be, in what ways, and with what effects? In doing so, it highlights the ambivalent place of the sacred in the self-image of modern states and jurisprudence. For if it is the case that, particularly in the developed West, contemporary law posits a fundamental conceptual divide between sacred and secular, it nevertheless remains true that the assertion of that divide has its own history, one that defines Western modernity itself.
Language Note
In English.
Available Note
Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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DeGruyter online
Language
English
ISBN
9781503626393
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