Law, Religion and Tradition
Giles, Jessica / Ravitch, Frank S. / Pin, Andrea This book explores different theories of law, religion, and tradition, from both a secular and a religious perspective. It reflects on how tradition and change can affect religious and secular legal reasoning, identifying the patterns of legal evolution within religious and secular traditions.
It is often taken for granted that, even in law, change corresponds and correlates to progress - that things ought to be changed and they will necessari...