Religion & Law

Recent Articles and Books of Interest

By Howard M. Friedman

• Rashida Manjoo, The Recognition of Muslim Personal Laws in South Africa: Implications of Women's Human Rights, (July 2007).


• Alexander Benard, The Advantage to Islam of Mosque-State Separation: What the American Founders Can Teach, (Policy Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 2008).


• Ilan Benshalom, The Dual Subsidy Theory of Charitable Deductions, (Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 84, April 7, 2007).


• Nantiya Ruan, The Justices Find Religion: Why the Supreme Court Ought to Expand Religious Accommodation Rights, (U. Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-11, April 7, 2008).


• William S. Brewbaker, Theory, Identity, Vocation: Three Models of Christian Legal Scholarship, (March 2008).


• Simon Critchley, The Catechism of the Citizen: Politics, Law and Religion in, after, with and Against Rousseau, (Law and Humanities, Vol. 1, No. 1, April 7, 2007).

From NELLCO:

• Ashlie Warnick, Accommodating Discrimination, (Yale Law School. Yale Law School Faculty Scholarship Series. Paper 17, April 1, 2008).

• ?Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na?im, Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a, (Harvard University Press, March 2008).


• Michael Leo Owens, God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America, (Univ. of Chicago Press, Fall 2007).


• Steven M.Tipton, Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argument of Public Life, (Univ. of Chicago Press, Fall 2007).


• John Witte, Jr., The Reformation of Rights-- Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism, (Cambridge Univ. Press, Feb. 2008).


• Thomas C. Berg, The Free Exercise of Religion Clause, (Prometheus Books, 2007). (Abstract from SSRN).

Full post as published by Religion Clause on April 14, 2008 (boomark / email).