Law and the sacred
By: edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey
Contributors: Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha Merrill
Series: Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780804755757
Subjects: Religion and law; Religion and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The sacred in law : an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas; title: The profanity of law / Nomi Stolzenberg; title: Pragmatic rule and personal sanctification in Islamic legal theory / Marion Holmes Katz; title: Our papalist Supreme Court : is reformation thinkable (or possible)? / Sanford Levinson; title: The ethos of sovereignty / William E. Connolly; title: The triumph of a departed world : law, modernity, and the sacred / Peter Fitzpatrick