After secular law / edited by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Robert A. Yelle, Mateo Taussig-Rubbo.

• Superior document: Cultural lives of law
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers, 1950-; Yelle, Robert A.; Taussig-Rubbo, Mateo, 1972-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural lives of law.
• Physical Description: xiii, 381 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Moses' veil : secularization as Christian myth / Robert A. Yelle -- Secular law and the realm of false religion / Jakob De Roover -- Assenting to the law : sacrifice and punishment at the dawn of secularism / Jonathan Sheehan -- National security and secularization in the English Revolution of 1688 / Rachel Weil -- "Intolerant of intolerance" in the Unitarian controversy : the theology of Baker v. Fales / Stephanie Phillips -- The university and the advent of the academic secular : the state's management of public instruction / Tomoko Masuzawa -- Stasiology : political theology and the figure of the sacrificial enemy / Banu Bargu -- Against sovereign impunity : the political theology of the International Criminal Court / Bruce Rosenstock -- Sovereign power and secular indeterminacy : is Egypt a secular or religious state? / Hussein Ali Agrama -- The ruse of law : legal equality and the problem of citizenship in a multi-religious Sudan / Noah Salomon -- The religio-secular continuum, or, Secular law as a theological discourse in Turkey / Markus Dressler -- "The spirits were always watching" : Buddhism, secular law, and social change in Thailand / David M. Engel -- Secular speech and popular passions : the antinomies of Indian secularism / Thomas Blom Hansen -- Courting culture : unexpected relationships between religion and law in contemporary Hawai'i / Greg Johnson -- The peculiar stake U.S. Protestants have in the question of state recognition of same-sex marriages / Mary Anne Case -- Sacred property : searching for value in the rubble of 9/11 / Mateo Taussig-Rubbo -- When is religion, religion, and a knife, a knife, and who decides? : the case of Denmark / Tim Jensen.