Law, Religion and Tradition / Jessica Giles, Andrea Pin Frank S. Ravitch, editors.

Law, Religion and Tradition / Jessica Giles, Andrea Pin Frank S. Ravitch, editors.

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This book explores different theories of law, religion, and tradition, from both a secular and a religious perspective. It reflects on how tradition and change can affect religious and secular legal reasoning, identifying the patterns of legal evolution within religious and secular traditions. It is often taken for granted that, even in law, change corresponds and correlates to progress – that things ought to be changed and they will necessarily get better. There is no doubt that legal changes over the centuries have made it possible to enhance the protection of individual rights and to somewhat contain the possibility of tyranny and despotism. But progress is not everything in law: stability and certainty lie at the core of the rule of law. Similarly, religions and religious laws could not survive without traditions; and yet, they still evolve, and their evolution is often intermingled with secular law.

Springer,

Giles, Jessica.

Pin, Andrea.

Ravitch, Frank S., 1966-

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1 online resource (xvii, 191 p.)

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10.1007/978-3-319-96749-3 doi

9783319967493 (electronic book)

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