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Posted on April 19, 2013July 28, 2016 by JCPW

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Some interesting law & religion stories from around the web this week:

Boston’s largest mosque requested that police guard its campus in the wake of Monday’s bombing
Egypt’s Coptic Christians continue to live in fear of Islamic extremists
An Irish constitutional convention has voted in favor of a civil marriage for same-sex couples
The Archbishop of Canterbury will meet with a gay rights activist
In Turkey, concert pianist Fazil Say was given a suspended jail sentence for blasphemy against Islam
Pastors push back against city’s annual registration fee for churches, claiming the fee is a tax that it violates separation of church and state
Rabbi Michael Broyde has been suspended from the Beth Din of America, a Jewish high court, for using a fake identity
An Ohio elementary school shut down its “Mindfulness Program” due to concern over its roots in Buddhism
McDonald’s settles class action over misrepresenting chicken as halal in a controversial $700,000 settlement

Posted on April 19, 2013July 28, 2016 by JCPW

Pihlström, “Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God”

This April, Fordham University Press published Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God by Sami Pihlström (University of Jyväskylä). The publisher’s description follows.

Pragmatism mediates rival extremes, and religion is no exception: The problems of realism versus antirealism, evidentialism versus fideism, and science versus religion, along with other key issues in the philosophy of religion, receive new interpretations when examined from a pragmatist point of view. Religion is then understood as a human practice with certain inherent aims and goals, responding to specific human needs and interests, serving certain important human values, and seeking to resolve problematic situations that naturally arise from our practices themselves, especially our need to live with our vulnerability, finitude, guilt, and mortality.

Posted on April 19, 2013July 28, 2016 by JCPW

Failinger, Schiltz & Stabile (eds.), “Feminism, Law and Religion”

This July, Ashgate Publishing will publish Feminism, Law and Religion edited by Marie A. Failinger (Hamline University School of Law), Elizabeth R. Schiltz (University of Saint Thomas School of Law), and Susan J. Stabile (University of Saint Thomas School of Law). The publisher’s description follows.

With contributions from some of the most prominent voices writing on gender, law and religion today, this book illuminates some of the conflicts at the intersection of feminism, theology and law. It examines a range of themes from the viewpoint of identifiable traditions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, from a theoretical and practical perspective. Among the themes discussed are the cross-over between religious and secular values and assumptions in the search for a just jurisprudence for women, the application of theological insights from religious traditions to legal issues at the core of feminist work, feminist legal readings of scriptural texts on women’s rights and the place that religious law has assigned to women in ecclesiastic life.

Feminists of faith face challenges from many sides: patriarchal remnants in their own tradition, dismissal of their faith commitments by secular feminists and balancing the conflicting loyalties of their lives. The book will be essential reading for legal and religious academics and students working in the area of gender and law or law and religion.

Posted on April 12, 2013July 28, 2016 by JCPW

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Here are some interesting law & religion stories from around the web this week:

After funeral for Coptic Christians killed in sectarian violence, clashes outside Cairo’s Coptic cathedral leave one dead and raise tempers in a tense political atmosphere. Copts say they no longer see a future in Egypt and Egypt’s Coptic Christian pope directly criticized the Islamist president.
President Obama issued an Executive Order extending the faith-based advisory council
Time Magazine features “The Latino Reformation,” addressing the rise of evangelical Latinos in the United States
A North Carolina lawmaker links Islamic prayer to terrorism
Arizona weighs unemployment tax break for churches
Study: religious schools perform better than public or charter schools
Women continue to challenge Orthodox practice at Israel’s Western Wall. Orthodox rabbi says he will not oppose a proposal to create a new area of prayer for Jews to worship in a less traditional style. After the proposed compromise, five women are detained for praying at the Western Wall.
Riley on interfaith unions
Religious leaders from the G8 countries are pushing heads of government to renew their efforts to meet the anti-poverty benchmarks by 2015
Church of England approves recognition of civil partnerships
The Crown Prosecution Service warns that Sharia courts are putting women at risk
Russian Orthodox patriarch denounces “dangerous feminism”
Bryson urges the Roman Catholic Church to allow nuns to be U.S. military chaplains
Romanian lawyer sues his bishop and four priests for failing to properly exorcise flatulent demons

Posted on April 12, 2013July 28, 2016 by JCPW

Himes, “Christianity and the Political Order”

This April, Orbis Books published Christianity and the Political Order: Conflict, Cooptation, and Cooperation by Kenneth R. Himes (Boston College). The publisher’s description follows.

Beyond electoral campaigns and government structures, the relationship between the political realm and Christianity has always involved the important questions of how we ought to live together, and how we should organize and govern our common life. As the author notes, politics—and the political choices we make—must be “guided by considerations of national and global justice and peace and, for Christians, by the teachings of Jesus,” as interpreted by tradition.

Himes examines the relationship between Christianity and politics from the teachings of the Old and New Testaments through the patristic and medieval eras and the age of reform to the age of revolution, and throughout the twentieth century into the third millennium. He takes on questions of the role of the church in politics, responsible voting, concerns of globalization, and issues of human rights and war and peace.

Posted on April 12, 2013July 28, 2016 by JCPW

Ferrari & Pastorelli (eds.), “The Burqa Affair Across Europe: Between Public and Private Space”

This July, Ashgate Publishing Company will publish The Burqa Affair Across Europe: Between Public and Private Space edited by Alessandro Ferrari (University of Insubria) and Sabrina Pastorelli (University of Milan). The publisher’s description follows.

In recent years, the wearing of the full-face veil or burqa/niqab has proved a controversial issue in many multi-cultural European societies. Focusing on the socio-legal and human rights angle, this volume provides a useful comparative perspective on how the issue has been dealt with across a range of European states as well as at European institutional level. In so doing, the work draws a theoretical framework for the place of religion between public and private space. With contributions from leading experts from law, sociology and politics, the book presents a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to one of the most contentious and symbolic issues of recent times.

Posted on April 5, 2013July 28, 2016 by JCPW

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Some interesting law & religion stories from around the web this week:

Federal judge rejects atheists’ lawsuit seeking to block display of steel cross at 9/11 memorial
Indiana Supreme Court upholds the nation’s broadest school voucher program, rejecting claims that the law primarily benefits religious institutions
In Tennessee, conservative legislators threaten to block a voucher bill over fear of funding Muslim schools
The U.S. Air Force now has its first Jewish female chaplain
Religion matters to the “new, new atheists”
Johns Hopkins student government association denies official status to student pro-life group over concerns about “harrassment”
Ohio school removes Jesus portrait after insurance company declines to cover litigation expenses
Tensions between ultra-Orthodox religious establishment and reform-minded women over prayers at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
Austria’s Muslim community claims Lego’s “Jabba Palace” is anti-Muslim; Lego withdraws the set, but says it’s not because of concerns about discrimination against Muslims
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina file a resolution to declare an official state religion
“Jew in a Box” exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin stirs controversy
And the Russian Army introduces the flying Orthodox church-in-a-box to serve Orthodox Christian soldiers in the field

Posted on April 5, 2013July 28, 2016 by JCPW

Klabbers & Piiparinen (eds.), “Normative Pluralism and International Law”

This April, Cambridge University Press will publish Normative Pluralism and International Law: Exploring Global Governance edited by Jan Klabbers (Helsinki University) and Touko Piiparinen (Finnish Institute of International Affairs). The publisher’s description follows.

This book addresses conflicts involving different normative orders: What happens when international law prohibits behavior, but the same behavior is nonetheless morally justified or warranted? Can the actor concerned ignore international law under appeal to morality? Can soldiers escape legal liability by pointing to honor? Can accountants do so under reference to professional standards? How, in other words, does law relate to other normative orders? The assumption behind this book is that law no longer automatically claims supremacy, but that actors can pick and choose which code to follow. The novelty resides not so much in identifying conflicts, but in exploring if, when, and how different orders can be used intentionally. In doing so, the book covers conflicts between legal orders and conflicts involving law and honor, self-regulation, lex mercatoria, local social practices, bureaucracy, religion, professional standards, and morality.

Posted on April 5, 2013July 28, 2016 by JCPW

Keown & George (eds.), “Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis”

This May, Oxford University Press will publish Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis edited by John Keown (Georgetown University) and Robert P. George (Princeton University). The publisher’s description follows.

John Finnis is a pioneer in the development of a new yet classically-grounded theory of natural law. His work offers a systematic philosophy of practical reasoning and moral choosing that addresses the great questions of the rational foundations of ethical judgments, the identification of moral norms, human agency, and the freedom of the will, personal identity, the common good, the role and functions of law, the meaning of justice, and the relationship of morality and politics to religion and the life of faith. The core of Finnis’ theory, articulated in his seminal work Natural Law and Natural Rights, has profoundly influenced later work in the philosophy of law and moral and political philosophy, while his contributions to the ethical debates surrounding nuclear deterrence, abortion, euthanasia, sexual morality, and religious freedom have powerfully demonstrated the practical implications of his natural law theory.

This volume, which gathers eminent moral, legal, and political philosophers, and theologians to engage with John Finnis’ work, offers the first sustained, critical study of Finnis’ contribution across the range of disciplines in which rational and morally upright choosing is a central concern. It includes a substantial response from Finnis himself, in which he comments on each of their 27 essays and defends and develops his ideas and arguments.

Posted on March 29, 2013July 28, 2016 by JCPW

Around the Web This Week

Some interesting law & religion stories from around the web this week:

Religious leaders protest President Obama’s drone policy
A federal court dismissed Franciscan University of Steubenville’s challenge to the contraception mandate
Anti-Muslim riots continue in Myanmar
Kentucky legislature overrides governor’s veto of controversial “religious freedom” bill
Mark D. Stern (general counsel of the American Jewish Committee) on gay rights and religious liberty
The Chinese government plans to eradicate all Protestant house churches
Secretary of State John Kerry is calling for the release of an Iranian-American minister imprisoned in Tehran for his religious beliefs
Irish abortion debate highlights growing church state tensions
Pope Francis washes womens’ feet at Holy Thursday ritual, breaking with church tradition

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