Comparative category: 2220 books
Judicial Reputation
A Comparative Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Judges are society’s elders and experts, our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense justice with integrity, deliberation, and efficiency. Yet judges, as Alexander Hamilton famously noted, lack the power of the purse or the sword. They must rely almost entirely on their reputations...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
This volume of essays contributes to the understanding of global law reform by questioning the assumption in law and development theory that laws fail to transfer because of shortcomings in project design and implementation. It brings together leading scholars who demonstrate that a synthesis of law...
Varieties of Religious Invention
Founders and Their Functions in History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
At the origins of the major religious traditions one typically finds a seminal figure. Names such as Jesus, Muhammad, Confucius, and Moses are well known, yet their status as "founders" has not gone uncontested. Does Paul deserve the credit for founding Christianity? Is Laozi the father of Daoism,...
Courts
A Comparative and Political Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In this provocative work, Martin Shapiro proposes an original model for the study of courts, one that emphasizes the different modes of decision making and the multiple political roles that characterize the functioning of courts in different political systems.
Shari'a and Muslim Minorities
The wasati and salafi approaches to fiqh al-aqalliyyat al-Muslima
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Based on a comparative analysis of several hundred religio-juristic treatises and fatwas (religious decisions), Shari'a and Muslim Minorities: The Wasati and Salafi Approaches to Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat al-Muslima offers the most systematic and comprehensive study to date of fiqh al aqalliyyat al-Muslima...
Nation and Family
Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
The distinct personal laws that govern the major religious groups are a major aspect of Indian multiculturalism and secularism, and support specific gendered rights in family life. Nation and Family is the most comprehensive study to date of the public discourses, processes of social mobilization,...
by Abe Abel, Sol Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
True comparative religion involves uncovering the spiritual truth behind the religious manifestation. Islam Undone does just that, it explains using Mohammed's own words how each Muslim has a demon companion. It uncovers his background in pagan Spiritism and explains the roots of sex-slavery, terrorism,...
Religious Conversion and Disaffiliation
Tracing Patterns of Change in Faith Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
This book is the first in over a decade to attempt a systematic synthesis of the field of conversion studies, encompassing the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, and theology. Gooren analyzes conversion and disaffiliation in a worldwide comparative framework, using data from North America, Europe, and Latin America.
by Van Lal Thuam Lian
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Theology - Comparative Religion Studies, grade: 2ii, , course: MA, language: English, abstract: This essay is a critical evaluation of Scriptural Reasoning, 'a wisdom-seeking engagement with Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures,' and its role in seeking the...
Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide
The Third Legal Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
This examination of the mixed jurisdiction experience makes use of an innovative cross-comparative methodology to provide a wealth of detail on each of the nine countries studied. It identifies the deep resemblances and salient traits of this legal family and the broad analytical overview highlights...
The Futility of Law and Development
China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
For all the attention paid to the Founder Fathers in contemporary American debates, it has almost been wholly forgotten how deeply they embraced an ambitious and intellectually profound valuation of foreign legal experience. Jedidiah Kroncke uses the Founders' serious engagement with, and often admiration...
East Asian Perspectives on Political Legitimacy
Bridging the Empirical-Normative Divide
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
What makes a government legitimate? Why do people voluntarily comply with laws, even when no one is watching? The idea of political legitimacy captures the fact that people obey when they think governments' actions accord with valid principles. For some, what matters most is the government's performance...
The Uses of Paradox
Religion, Self-Transformation, and the Absurd
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
In this groundbreaking comparative study, Matthew Bagger investigates the role of paradox in Western and Asian religious discourse. Drawing on both philosophy and social scientific theory, he offers a naturalistic explanation of religion's oft-noted propensity to sublime paradox and argues that religious...
by Lynne Cantwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
“Under a velvet sky spangled with a billion stars…”More than forty deities, representative of sixteen pantheons from around the world, have found Their way into the twelve books and assorted short stories of the Pipe Woman Chronicles story cycle. In A Billion Gods and Goddesses: The Mythology...