‘One Flesh’ in Ecclesiastical Tradition and in Karaite Law

What is it about?

The emerging field of ‘law and religion’ is an integrative extension of legal studies with another academic field, and it encompasses the study of further themes and topics as informed by the nexus of these two disciplines. Yet, it is also about reconsidering traditional conceptions of and attitudes towards law and the character of law. The study of law and religion injects new blood into old inquiries; it invites a revision of jurisprudential convention and hence demands refreshment of traditional conceptualizations of law. Taken seriously, the field of law and religion revitalizes questions about the independency of the law as normative realm and calls on us to reconsider how religious ideals function...

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