[Rezension von: Communities and Courts: Religion and Law in Modern India]
Manisha Sethi’s edited volume, Communities and Courts, is a timely and comprehensive account of religion and law in modern India. In studying this relationship, the volume emphasizes a need to move beyond accounts that focus on the law as a secular and modernizing force that intervenes with religion...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Oxford University Press
2023
|
| In: |
A journal of church and state
Year: 2023, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 271-273 |
| Review of: | Communities and courts (London : Routledge, 2022) (Sharma, Yash)
|
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Law
/ Religion
/ India
|
| IxTheo Classification: | KBM Asia SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
|
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Manisha Sethi’s edited volume, Communities and Courts, is a timely and comprehensive account of religion and law in modern India. In studying this relationship, the volume emphasizes a need to move beyond accounts that focus on the law as a secular and modernizing force that intervenes with religion. Instead, as Sethi asserts in her introduction, the volume is interested in questions of how courts “define what is properly religious, and what are the limits of religious freedom, the justifications for state intervention and so on” (p. 2). Apart from the introduction by Sethi and the afterword by Sasheej Hegde, the volume has three parts ... |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csad005 |