DIVINITY, LAW, AND THE LEGAL TURN IN THE STUDY OF RELIGIONS

While histories of ideas in premodern perspectives habitually understood history as divisions of fixed periods, modernists tend to narrate these histories in terms of flowing streams curving through timelines, intersections, and junctions. Crucial moments, accordingly, are turns and returns, shifts...

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1. VerfasserIn: David, Joseph ca. 20./21. Jh. (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Hayes, Christine (VerfasserIn des Bezugswerks)
Medienart: Elektronisch Review
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: [2017]
In: Journal of law and religion
Jahr: 2017, Band: 32, Heft: 1, Seiten: 172-184
Rezension von:The divine courtroom in comparative perspective (Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2014) (David, Joseph)
What's divine about divine law? (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015) (David, Joseph)
weitere Schlagwörter:B Divine Law
B Rezension
B Comparative Law
B legal imagination
B Natural Law
B talmudic law
B History of ideas
B Philo
B Paul
B Jewish Studies
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Zusammenfassung:While histories of ideas in premodern perspectives habitually understood history as divisions of fixed periods, modernists tend to narrate these histories in terms of flowing streams curving through timelines, intersections, and junctions. Crucial moments, accordingly, are turns and returns, shifts and orientations. I am not sure what it takes to diagnose and proclaim an intellectual turn or how to affirm or refute such a phenomenon, but I take the audacious risk and argue that the last couple of decades have seen a "legal turn" in the study of religions-a renewed focus on legal aspects of religion that includes legal concepts, theories, and practices.
ISSN:2163-3088
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2017.23