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Discussion of the way in which law engages with religious
difference often takes place within the context of a single
jurisdiction. Religion and Law: An Introduction, presents a
comprehensive text for students, drawing on examples from across
key Anglophone jurisdictions - the United Kingdom, the United
States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, as well as
international law, to explore a broad range of issues. Aimed at a
non-legal readership, this book introduces the use of legal sources
and focuses on factual situations as much as legal doctrine. Key
issues arising from interaction of the religious individual and the
State are discussed, as well as the religious organisation or
community and the State. The interaction is explored through case
studies of areas as diverse as the legal regulation of religious
drug use, sacred spaces and sacred places, and claims of clergy
misconduct. Taking a broad, non-jurisdictional approach to the key
issues, in particular providing insights differing from the
dominant US experiences and paradigms, this student-friendly
textbook includes a clearly structured bibliography and clear
guidance on how to approach relevant legal materials.
Discussion of the way in which law engages with religious
difference often takes place within the context of a single
jurisdiction. Religion and Law: An Introduction, presents a
comprehensive text for students, drawing on examples from across
key Anglophone jurisdictions - the United Kingdom, the United
States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, as well as
international law, to explore a broad range of issues. Aimed at a
non-legal readership, this book introduces the use of legal sources
and focuses on factual situations as much as legal doctrine. Key
issues arising from interaction of the religious individual and the
State are discussed, as well as the religious organisation or
community and the State. The interaction is explored through case
studies of areas as diverse as the legal regulation of religious
drug use, sacred spaces and sacred places, and claims of clergy
misconduct. Taking a broad, non-jurisdictional approach to the key
issues, in particular providing insights differing from the
dominant US experiences and paradigms, this student-friendly
textbook includes a clearly structured bibliography and clear
guidance on how to approach relevant legal materials.
The relationship between law and religion has traditionally been
analysed according to two basic paradigms. One has focused on the
relationship between religious communities and the State (the
Church/State paradigm), while the other has concentrated on the
relationship between the State and the individual (the
liberal-individualist or civil liberties paradigm). This book
enriches the analysis of law and religion in society by emphasising
a third and complementary analytical dimension involving the
relationship between religious communities and religious
individuals. In particular, the contributors explore the various
facets of the multiple tensions that exist in the legal
relationships between religious organisations, State and adherents
in the period leading up to the third Christian millennium. Against
the background of the complex and sometimes contradictory responses
of religious organisations and the State to the Human Rights Act,
this interdisciplinary collection draws on contributions from
leading scholars active in the field of religious rights and the
interaction of law and religion based in the UK, USA, Canada, New
Zealand and elsewhere, and makes a timely and significant
contribution to international debates in a variety of academic
disciplines. Contributors explore international concerns over
religious liberty, focusing particularly on the boundaries of
ethnicity and religious community, the status of the 'established'
Churches in the UK, and the proper place for religious
organisations under generally applicable legal regimes of
non-discrimination. Themes discussed are closely related to wider
interests within legal and socio-legal studies involving gender,
discrimination, equality, community and the nature and limits of
individualism and individual legal rights.
The relationship between law and religion has traditionally been
analysed according to two basic paradigms. One has focused on the
relationship between religious communities and the State (the
Church/State paradigm), while the other has concentrated on the
relationship between the State and the individual (the
liberal-individualist or civil liberties paradigm). This book
enriches the analysis of law and religion in society by emphasising
a third and complementary analytical dimension involving the
relationship between religious communities and religious
individuals. In particular, the contributors explore the various
facets of the multiple tensions that exist in the legal
relationships between religious organisations, State and adherents
in the period leading up to the third Christian millennium. Against
the background of the complex and sometimes contradictory responses
of religious organisations and the State to the Human Rights Act,
this interdisciplinary collection draws on contributions from
leading scholars active in the field of religious rights and the
interaction of law and religion based in the UK, USA, Canada, New
Zealand and elsewhere, and makes a timely and significant
contribution to international debates in a variety of academic
disciplines. Contributors explore international concerns over
religious liberty, focusing particularly on the boundaries of
ethnicity and religious community, the status of the 'established'
Churches in the UK, and the proper place for religious
organisations under generally applicable legal regimes of
non-discrimination. Themes discussed are closely related to wider
interests within legal and socio-legal studies involving gender,
discrimination, equality, community and the nature and limits of
individualism and individual legal rights.
More than 125,000 children in the UK alone are 'sentenced' to
separation from their imprisoned parents, mainly fathers. Gwyneth
Boswell and Peter Wedge draw on extensive research and experience
to examine the effect this kind of separation can have on the
emotional development of a child and on family relationships. They
make suggestions for work with prisoners and families in the light
of current policy and practice and consider how best to support: *
children coming to terms with conflicting emotions arising from
fathers' imprisonment * fathers who may be teenagers themselves *
mothers or carers coping with absent partners * prison staff trying
to incorporate the family as a factor in rehabilitation. Examining
the rights and needs of imprisoned fathers and their children and
using case examples to demonstrate effective ways of maintaining
contact and communication, this is an indispensable resource for
all those working with the families of fathers in prison.
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