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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. "The chapters in this volume are based on papers read at a seminar on Religion, Law, and Justice held at the University of Bergen on 10-12 November, 2014."--Preface. Description: 170 pages ; 25 cm. Contents: The symbolic function of the law in Ezra 9-10 / Kristin Joachimsen -- How things make monks : objects and artifacts in the Pachomian rules / Ingvild S lid Gilhus -- God, king, and church : the king as divinely elected in Norwegian law and rhetoric from the early modem period to the late nineteenth century / Gina Dahl -- Islamic order : semeiotics and pragmatism in the Muslim brotherhood / Ulrika Mårtensson -- Family law, female citizenship and state formation in Arab States : pre-2011 conditions and post-2011 reflections on political transitions / Rania Maktabi -- The right to be exempted : a discussion of the relationship between religion, law and education in Norwegian public schools / Marie von der Lippe -- Religion and law / Stefan Olsson. 'The relations between religions and laws, whether the latter are based on religious or secular principles, vary between cultures and have changed through history. . Since these relations are dynamic and mirror power and gender hierarchies, they have often been dramatic, and not infrequently violent. Religious ideas can inspire as well as contradict law; laws can support or circumscribe religion. In relation to justice, religious power and public laws can be supportive or obstructive, promote it or undermine it. Religion, law, and justice denote three of the most important perspectives through which history can be interpreted and the contemporary world problematized. The seven essays in this volume exemplify a selection of approaches to the analysis of these three factors.'.