Comparative Religious Law: Judaism, Christianity, Islam

Author: Norman Doe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316617809
Published In: November 2018
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Comparative Religious Law provides for the first time a study of the regulatory instruments of Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious organisations in Britain in light of their historical religious laws. Norman Doe questions assumptions about the pervasiveness, character and scope of religious laws, from the view that they are not or should not be recognised by civil law, to the idea that there may be a fundamental incompatibility between religious and civil law.

It proposes that religious laws pervade society, are recognised by civil law, have both a religious and temporal character, and regulate wide areas of believers' lives. Subjects include sources of law, faith leaders, governance, worship and education, rites of passage, divorce and children, and religion-State relations. A Charter of 'the principles of religious law' common to all three Abrahamic faiths is proposed, to stimulate greater mutual understanding between religion and society and between the three faiths themselves.

Preface

Table of abbreviations

Introduction

1. The laws: communities, sources and functions

2. The faithful: status, duties and rights

3. The faith leaders: appointment and functions:

4. The governance of communities: institutions and officers

5. The resolution of disputes: courts and tribunals

6. The faith, worship and education

7. The rites of passage

8. The family, marriage and children

9. The property and finance of the faith community