The Possibility of Religious Freedom: Early Natural Law and the Abrahamic Faiths

ISBN-13: 9781108423953 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 176 str.

Karen Taliaferro

Opis

A theory of religious freedom for the modern era that uses natural law from ancient Greek, Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources.

Recenzje

'Karen Taliaferro's The Possibility of Religious Freedom: Early Natural Law and the Abrahamic Faiths is modest in size but ambitious in scope.' Joshua Neoh, Journal of Law and Religion

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Religion and law in late modernity; 2. Antigone: the tragedy of human and divine law; 3. Maimonides' middle way: teleology as a guide for the perplexed; 4. Between Sharī'a and human law: Ibn Rushd and the unwritten law of nature; 5. Arguing natural law: Tertullian and religious freedom in the Roman Empire; Conclusion. Natural law, modernity and aporia; Epilogue. Religious freedom in Qatar.