Faith and Law : : How Religious Traditions from Calvinism to Islam View American Law / / ed. by Robert F. Cochran Jr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Aprill, Ellen P.,; Baker, Anthony V.,; Bost, Thomas G.,; Caudill, David S.,; Chakrabarti, Kisor K.,; Cochran, Robert F.,; Durham, W. Cole,; Emon, Anver M.,; French, Rebecca R.,; Hall, Timothy L.,; Howard Yoder, John,; Juárez, José Roberto,; Levine, Samuel J.,; McKinley Brennan, Patrick,; Mensch, Elizabeth,; Scharffs, Brett G.,; Shaffer, Thomas L.,; Tuttle, Robert W.,; Young, Michael K.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cochran Jr., Robert F.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The relationship between religion and the law is a hot-button topic in America, with the courts, Congress, journalists, and others engaging in animated debates on what influence, if any, the former should have on the latter. Many of these discussions are dominated by the legal perspective, which vie...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. The Augustinian Framework: The City of God and the City of Man
• Introduction
• 1. Augustine
• Part II. Reformation Faiths
• Introduction
• 2. Calvinists
• 3. Lutherans
• 4. Anabaptists
• 5. Baptists
• Part III. Home-Grown American Faiths
• Introduction
• 6. Evangelicals
• 7. African-American Churches
• 8. Churches of Christ
• 9. Latter-Day Saints
• Part IV. Catholicism
• Introduction
• 10. Catholic Natural Law
• 11. Catholic Social Thought
• Part V. Judaism
• Introduction
• 12. Orthodox Jews
• 13. Reform Jews
• Part VI. New Immigrant Faiths
• Introduction
• 14. Hindus
• 15. Buddhists
• 16. Muslims
• Contributors
• Index