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Law and religion is the interdisciplinary study of relationships between law, especially public law, and religion. Over a dozen scholarly organizations and committees focussing on law and religion were in place by 1983, and a scholarly quarterly, the Journal of Law and Religion , was first published that year.
Religious law includes ethical and moral codes taught by religious traditions. Examples of religiously derived legal codes include Christian canon law (applicable within a wider theological conception in the church, but in modern times distinct from secular state law [ 1 ] ), Jewish halakha , Islamic sharia , and Hindu law . [ 2 ]
This category has content on both state law and private law, related to religion. Exclusive state law content goes into child Category:Church and state law. For the academic field of study, see Law and Religion.
Freedom of religion includes, at a minimum, freedom of belief (the right to believe whatever a person, group, or religion wishes, including all forms of irreligion, such as atheism, humanism, existentialism, or other forms of non-belief), but some feel freedom of religion must include freedom of practice (the right to practice a religion or ...
Royal C. Gilkey, "The Problem of Church and State in Terms of the Nonestablishment and Free Exercise of Religion", William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 9, Issue I, 1967, 149–165; Robert Struble Jr., Treatise on Twelve Lights: To Restore America the Beautiful under God and the Written Constitution, 2007–08 edition.
Religious law refers to ethical and moral codes taught by religions. Examples include Christian canon law , Islamic sharia , Jewish halakha and Hindu law . Subcategories
The Journal of Law and Religion (JLR) is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal edited by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion (Emory University School of Law) and published in collaboration with Cambridge University Press. [1]
Civil law codifications based closely on Roman law, alongside some influences from religious laws such as canon law, continued to spread throughout Europe until the Enlightenment. Then, in the 19th century, both France, with the Code Civil , and Germany, with the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch , modernised their legal codes.