Religions and Human Rights: Conflicts Part III focuses on conflicts between liberalism as culture, political and legal ideology and political power, on the one hand, and religion and communalism, on the other hand. The challenge for liberal jurisprudence has been to ...

Edited by Gad Barzilai University of Washington, USA Religions as Traditions of Law Religion does not merely constitute a major source of modern human rights; it also constitutes a certain ontology in modern nationalism and law. Mainly since the nineteenth ...

Edited by Gad Barzilai University of Washington, USA Religions as Sources of Human Rights The essays in Part I of this volume address the religious origins of modern human rights and explicate interactions between religious origins and contemporary modern law. ...

The Veiled Alliance: Law and Religion Intimate relations between law and religion have been constituted and constantly transformed throughout history. According to natural religious law – a law driven from a faith in God or in divine forces – morality ...

Edited by Gad Barzilai University of Washington, USA A Challenge Modern law and religion are essential sociopolitical phenomena that have in common some veiled elements. Both aspire to constitute, or at least to frame, human consciousness and behaviour in all ...

By Camille Veselka (advocate of LGBT rights) When ancient Mesopotamians created the first religions, they sought to explain the natural world — to fill in the blanks that science could not. These beliefs were occasionally the foundations of societies. As ...

While the Synod of Dort continued its sittings, Prince Maurice and his party were actively employed in increasing the popular ferment against Barneveldt, Grotius and Hoogerbetz; in collecting evidence of the designs and practices of which they were accused, and ...

In the ruin of the Roman Empire, her laws were lost in the general wreck. During the two hundred years, which followed the reign of Constantine the Great, Europe was a scene of every calamity, which the inroads of barbarians ...

The subject of the Roman Jurisprudence was ever kept alive and active by the fact that the Christian Church had in a measure adopted it as her own. For it was from the Roman Civil Law that the Canon Law ...

In Rome lived a learned Greek exile from the famous city of Ephesus in Asia Minor, a man of philosophic turn of mind by the name of Hermodorus. He advised the Romans, by whom it appears he was held in ...