Diaspora and Law : : Culture, Religion, and Jurisprudence beyond Sovereignty /

Diaspora and Law : : Culture, Religion, and Jurisprudence beyond Sovereignty / / ed. by Liliana Ruth Feierstein, Daniel Weidner.

Today, law is no longer homogenous or unquestioned. Different overlapping legal systems constantly interfere with one another, both on an international level, in complex transnational contexts such as the European Union or human rights law, but also in the context of cultural diversity or conflicts...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Augsberg, Ino,
Battegay, Caspar,
Elisheva Fonrobert, Charlotte,
Feierstein, Liliana Ruth,
Heger, Martin,
Heschel, Susannah,
Klapheck, Elisa,
Kurnaz, Serdar,
Last Stone, Suzanne,
Probst, Stephan M.,
Stierstorfer, Klaus,
Weidner, Daniel,
HerausgeberIn:
Feierstein, Liliana Ruth,
Weidner, Daniel,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge : Herausgegeben vom Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Kooperation mit dem Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg , 66
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 214 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Law beyond Sovereignty
  • I. Diaspora
  • An Exile of the Soul: A Theological Examination of Jewish Understandings of Diaspora
  • Diaspomenos: Hermeneutics of Exile
  • II. Traditions of Plurality
  • Law without Nation? The Ongoing Jewish Discussion
  • Dina de-malkhuta dina and Talmudic Divorce Law: A Challenge for Rabbinic Law in Diaspora
  • The Transformation of Sharia from a Law-Centered Understanding to Ethics: An Overview
  • III. Law and Religion
  • Der Wandel von einem personalen zu einem territorialen Rechtsverständnis in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit
  • Towards a Jewish Theology of Secular Law
  • IV. Legal Pluralism in Concrete Action
  • Halacha and Medical Law at the End of Life
  • “He was lain to rest in the Darkening of the Tides …”: Death and Burial in the Field of Tension between Competing Laws in Latin America
  • V. Law and Literature in the Diaspora
  • Law and Literature in Diaspora: Gandhi’s Autobiography
  • Star Trek: Diaspora and Law in the German-Jewish Imagination
  • About the Authors
  • Index

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