Monday, November 06, 2023

Journal of Law and Religion Volume 38, Issue 2 | May 2023 Free to read until November 30, 2023


Our friends over that the Journal of Law and Religion are celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the publication of their first issue. The Press Release notes the breadth of the articles selected for this Volume 38 Issue 2:

This issue of JLR is a fitting tribute to forty years of scholarship on law and religion, reflecting the journal’s commitment to scholarship of international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious scope.

Sara Mayeux’s history of the Catholic left in the United States and its critique of legal liberalism in the tumult of the 1960s adds a rich new layer of historical analysis to the complicated story of Catholicism and US law that continues to unfold today.

Kamran Bajwa and Samuel Miller offer the first in-depth engagement with Muslim amici before the US Supreme Court, adding both to the literature on religious amici and on the politics of Islam in the United States. The next three articles ask when the law should or should not regulate religious behavior, drawing examples from three different national contexts.

Shaun de Freitas addresses the recent case of Gaum v. Van Rensburg and whether the South African High Court exceeded its jurisdiction in a decision holding that certain doctrinal positions of the Dutch Reformed Church amounted to impermissible discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu provides a careful and detailed examination of the defense of provocation by witchcraft in Kenyan homicide trials.

Windy Grendele, Maya Flax, and Savin Bapir-Tardy examine whether developments in the United Kingdom’s Serious Crime Act of 2015 make the law applicable to cases of shunning within the Jehovah’s Witness community.

The issue also includes reviews of new books on civil religion, human dignity, constitutionalism, global Eastern Orthodoxy, religious freedom, the Laws of Hammurabi, early Reformed political theory, and queer and religious alliances.

Links follow below.

 
Editorial


Research Articles


Book Reviews

Andre P. Audette
 

The Inherence of Human Dignity. 2 volumes. Edited by Angus J. L. Menuge and Barry W. Bussey. London: Anthem Press, 2021. Vol. 1, Foundations of Human Dignity. Pp. 254. $125.00 (cloth), $40.00 (digital). ISBN: 9781785276484. Vol. 2, Law and Religious Liberty. Pp. 276. $125.00 (cloth), $40.00 (digital). ISBN: 9781785276521.

Michael J. DeBoer


Queer and Religious Alliances in Family Law, Politics, and Beyond. Edited by Nausica Palazzo and Jeffrey A. Redding. Pp. 230. $125.00 (cloth); $40.00 (digital). London: Anthem Press. ISBN: 9781839983078.

Alexa J. Windsor

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