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The Italian Legal System
An Introduction, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
For fifty years, the first edition of The Italian Legal System has been the gold standard among English-language works on the Italian legal system. The book's original authors, Mauro Cappelletti, John Henry Merryman, and Joseph M. Perillo, provided not only an overview of Italian law, but a definition...
The Powers of Law
A Comparative Analysis of Sociopolitical Legal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Comparative studies can reveal much about how law is formed out of social reality and political power by exploring these interactions in different national contexts. In this work Mauricio García-Villegas compares ideas about law and society in France and the United States, demonstrating different...
by F. B. Jevons
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
The use of any science lies in its application to practical purposes. For Christianity, the use of the science of religion consists in applying it to show that Christianity is the highest manifestation of the religious spirit. To make this use of the science of religion, we must fully and frankly...
by Paolo Passaglia
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
The Irish judicial review of legislation from a comparative point of view.
Beyond High Courts
The Justice Complex in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Beyond High Courts: The Justice Complex in Latin America is a much-needed volume that will make a significant contribution to the growing fields of comparative law and politics and Latin American legal institutions. The book moves these research agendas beyond the study of high courts by offering...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Constitutions worldwide inevitably have 'invisible' features: they have silences and lacunae, unwritten or conventional underpinnings, and social and political dimensions not apparent to certain observers. The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective helps us understand these dimensions to...
Comparative Religious Law
Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Comparative Religious Law provides for the first time a study of the regulatory instruments of Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious organisations in Britain in light of their historical religious laws. Norman Doe questions assumptions about the pervasiveness, character and scope of religious laws,...
Conservation and Recreation in Protected Areas
A Comparative Legal Analysis of Environmental Conflict Resolution in the United States and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive and up to date comparative study of the management and resolution of conflicts between conservation and recreation in protected areas in the US and China. Competing claims on the use of nature, increasing regulation of land use and recreational activities, and the...
by Robert Tidwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
A critical analysis of the first album released by the hip hop duo the Insane Clown Posse. I explore the relationship between between the album and the mythological figure Azazel from the Abrahamic traditions. This essay is the first essay in an ongoing series. I also explore other connections to Islam as they relate to the debut album.
Muslim Ethics and Modernity
A Comparative Study of the Ethical Thought of Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Mawlana Mawdudi
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
A study of modern Muslim ethics, focussed upon the lives and writings of Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Mawlana Mawdudi, this monograph sheds light upon the modern ethical problems of contemporary Islam. Sayyid Ahmad Khan, often called a liberal, a modernist, or an acculturationist, represents the "liberal"...
by Robert A. Burns
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This book has its origins in a comparative religions course Burns has taught at the University of Arizona for the past thirty years. Those who have enrolled in the class have come from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Whatever the mix, a shared curiosity about Christianity, Judaism, and...
by James Freeman Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
The present work is what the Germans call a Versuch, and the English an Essay, or attempt. It is an attempt to compare the great religions of the world with each other. When completed, this comparison ought to show what each is, what it contains, wherein it resembles the others, wherein it differs...
Universal Dimensions of Islam
Studies in Comparative Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Islam's acceptance of other religions remains an enigma for many Westerners. The 16 essays in this volume, by renowned experts on Islam such as Frithjof Schuon, Rene Guenon, Titus Burckhardt, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, explore the fundamental universality of the world's second largest religion, presenting...
Antonio Gramsci and the Question of Religion
Ideology, Ethics, and Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Antonio Gramsci and the Question of Religion provides a new introduction to the thought of Gramsci through the prisms of religious studies and comparative ethics. Bruce Grelle shows that Gramsci’s key ideas – on hegemony, ideology, moral reformation, "traditional" and "organic"...