[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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Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Review |
Idioma: | Inglês |
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Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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A journal of church and state
Ano: 2023, Volume: 65, Número: 2, Páginas: 271-273 |
Resenha de: | Communities and courts (London : Routledge, 2022) (Sharma, Yash)
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(Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
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Resumo: | 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 |
Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csad005 |