Religion & Law

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

By Howard M. Friedman

• Ayelet Shachar & Ran Hirschl, The New Wall of Separation: Permitting Diversity, Restricting Competition, (Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 30, pp. 2535-2560, 2009).
• Andrew F. March, Islamic Legal Theory, Secularism and Religious Pluralism: Is Modern Religious Freedom Sufficient for the Shari'a 'Purpose [Maqsid]' of 'Preserving Religion [Hifz Al-Din]?', (August 14, 2009).
• Mohammad Fadel, Islamic Politics and Secular Politics: Can They Co-Exist?, (Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2009).
• Martha Albertson Fineman, Religious Resistance to Family Law Reform in the US, (Emory Law Public Law Journal, Forthcoming).
• Andrew F. March, Taking People as They are: Islam as a 'Realistic Utopia' in the Political Theory of Sayyid Qutb, (APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper).

From SmartCILP:

• Matthew R. Clark & Charles P. Misseijer, Through the Founders' Prism: Faith and Perspective at the Intersection of Law and Policy, 1 Regent Journal of Law & Public Policy 1-10 (2009).
• Jay A. Sekulow & Benjamin P. Sisney. Constitutionally Protected Parental Rights in Child-Custody Arrangements and the Impact of Religion on Children, 1 Regent Journal of Law & Public Policy 169-214 (2009).

Recent Books:

• Meera Nanda, The God Market: How Globalisation Is Making India Hindu, (Random House India, Aug. 2009), reviewed in LiveMint.
• John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World, (Penguin, April 2009), reviewed in Foreign Affairs.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on August 24, 2009 (boomark / email).