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The specter of the sacred always haunts the law, even in the most resolute of contemporary secular democracies. Indeed, the more one considers the question of the relation between law and the sacred, the more it appears that endless debate over the proper relationship of government to religion is only the most quotidian example of a problematic that lies at the heart of law itself. And currently, as some in the United States grapple with the seeming fragility of secular democracy in the face of threatening religious fundamentalisms, the question has gained a particular urgency. This book explores questions about the fundamental role of the sacred in the constitution of law, historically and theoretically. It examines contemporary efforts to separate law from the sacred and asks: How did the division of law and sacred come to be, in what ways, and with what effects? In doing so, it highlights the ambivalent place of the sacred in the self-image of modern states and jurisprudence. For if it is the case that, particularly in the developed West, contemporary law posits a fundamental conceptual divide between sacred and secular, it nevertheless remains true that the assertion of that divide has its own history, one that defines Western modernity itself.

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Book category Books in English Law Jurisprudence & general issues Systems of law

• Full title: Law and the Sacred
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780804755757
• ISBN: 0804755752
• ID: 04718237
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 408 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. November 2006

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