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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.
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.
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 ]
Religious law refers to ethical and moral codes taught by religions. Examples include Christian canon law , Islamic sharia , Jewish halakha and Hindu law . Subcategories
A religious exemption is a legal privilege that exempts members of a certain religion from a law, regulation, or requirement. Religious exemptions are often justified as a protection of religious freedom, and proponents of religious exemptions argue that complying with a law against one's faith is a greater harm than complying against a law that one otherwise disagrees with due to a fear of ...
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]
This category includes articles related to laws governing the relationship between religion and the state. For ethical and moral codes taught by religions, see Category:Religious law . Subcategories
Jewish law – the collective body of Jewish religious laws derived from the Written and Oral Torah. Christianity – monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings. Jesus – the founder of Christianity; Bible – the holy text of Christianity