Diaspora and law :: culture, religion, and jurisprudence beyond sovereignty /: edited by Liliana Ruth Feierstein and Daniel Weidner.

Feierstein, Liliana Ruth,; Weidner, Daniel,

Diaspora and law : culture, religion, and jurisprudence beyond sovereignty / edited by Liliana Ruth Feierstein and Daniel Weidner.

Feierstein, Liliana Ruth, editor.; Weidner, Daniel, editor.

2023

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Diaspora and law : culture, religion, and jurisprudence beyond sovereignty / edited by Liliana Ruth Feierstein and Daniel Weidner.

Added Author

Feierstein, Liliana Ruth, editor.
Weidner, Daniel, editor.

Imprint

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]

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Description

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).

Series

Europäisch-jüdische Studien. Beiträge ; v. 66.

Formatted Contents Note

Introduction : Law beyond sovereignty / Liliana Ruth Feierstein, Daniel Weidner
I. Diaspora. An exile of the soul : a theological examination of Jewish understandings of diaspora / Susannah Heschel
Diaspomenos : hermeneutics of exile / Ino Augsberg
II. Traditions of plurality. Law without nation? The ongoing Jewish discussion / Suzanne Last Stone
Dina de-malkhuta dina and Talmudic divorce law : a challenge for Rabbinic law in diaspora / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
The transformation of Sharia from a law-centered understanding to ethics : an overview / Serdar Kurnaz
III. Law and religion. Der Wandell von einem personalen zu einem territorialen Rechtsverständnis in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit / Martin Heger
Towards a Jewish theology of secular law / Elisa Klapheck
IV. Legal pluralism in concrete action. Halacha and medical law at the end of life / Stephan M. Probst
"He was lain to rest in the darkening of the tides..." : death and burial in the field of tension between competing laws in Latin America / Liliana Ruth Feierstein
V. Law and literature in the diaspora. Law and literature in diaspora : Gandhi's autobiography / Klaus Stierstorfer
Star Trek : diaspora and law in the German-Jewish imagination / Caspar Battegay
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Summary

"Today, law is no longer homogenous or unquestioned. Different overlapping legal systems constantly interfere with one another, both on an international level, in complex transnational contexts such as the European Union or human rights law, but also in the context of cultural diversity or conflicts between religious norms and civil institutions, between minorities and the power of the state. On the other hand, the neutrality of law is also under growing pressure, be it from different global transnational players, or from within nation states where calls are made to adapt law to the will of 'the people.' The heated European debate on the 'refugee crisis' has made it manifest that law is more necessary than ever and yet fundamentally contested, perhaps even caught in contradictions and self-limitations. At the same time, the current perspective on legal problems allows us to address issues of diversity and the role of Europe in the globalized world more clearly. The articles of this book take these recent developments and debates as a starting point to discuss from the perspective of different disciplines the pressing question of how to live together in the new millennium and how to figure the long history of law before, besides, and after the dominant paradigm of state law"-- Provided by publisher.

Language Note

Ten contributions in English, one in German.

Bibliography, etc. Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Description

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed August 9, 2024).

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Print version: Diaspora and law. Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]

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English