[Rezension von: Communities and Courts: Religion and Law in Modern India]
Manisha Sethi’s edited volume, Communities and Courts, is a timely and comprehensive account of religion and law in modern India. In studying this relationship, the volume emphasizes a need to move beyond accounts that focus on the law as a secular and modernizing force that intervenes with religion...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Review |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2023
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A journal of church and state
Jahr: 2023, Band: 65, Heft: 2, Seiten: 271-273 |
| Rezension von: | Communities and courts (London : Routledge, 2022) (Sharma, Yash)
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Recht
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| IxTheo Notationen: | KBM Asien SA Kirchenrecht; Staatskirchenrecht |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Manisha Sethi’s edited volume, Communities and Courts, is a timely and comprehensive account of religion and law in modern India. In studying this relationship, the volume emphasizes a need to move beyond accounts that focus on the law as a secular and modernizing force that intervenes with religion. Instead, as Sethi asserts in her introduction, the volume is interested in questions of how courts “define what is properly religious, and what are the limits of religious freedom, the justifications for state intervention and so on” (p. 2). Apart from the introduction by Sethi and the afterword by Sasheej Hegde, the volume has three parts ... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csad005 |