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The Rule of Law and the Rule of God

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  • © 2014

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  1. Simeon O. Ilesanmi
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  2. Win-Chiat Lee
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. The Rule of Law and the Rule of God: An Introduction

    1. The Rule of Law and the Rule of God: An Introduction

      • Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Win-Chiat Lee, J. Wilson Parker
      Pages 1-11

  3. Fundamental Concerns

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. The Return of Political Theology

      • Mark Lilla
      Pages 15-29

    3. Monotheistic Faith and the Cosmopolitan Conscience

      • William Schweiker
      Pages 31-49

  6. Concluding Thoughts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Rules of Law and God: Liberal Democratic Reflections on Freedom, Equality, and Religion

      • Richard B. Miller
      Pages 235-251

    3. Postscript

      • J. Wilson Parker
      Pages 253-269

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 271-284
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This book examines the competing regimes of law and religion an offers a multidisciplinary approach to demonstrate the global scope of their influence. It argues that the tension between these two institutions results from their disagreements about the kinds of rule that should govern human life and society, and from where they should be derived.

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“This collection of essays … is one of the latest scholarly attempts to grapple with the questions arising from recent events and the trends that highlight the perennial issues of the seemingly competing regimes of the rule of God and the rule of modern civil law. … The book overall offers to readers a useful … contribution toward a liberal cosmopolitan perspective on the relationship of religious conviction and the liberal political order.” (Stephen Wolfe, Journal of Church and State, Vol. 58 (3), 2016)


"Conference proceedings rarely make good books, but this is the happy exception. Ilesanmi and his colleagues have brought together a scintillating set of papers that focus, for the most part, on those areas of actual and potential conflict between shari'a and the demands of liberal democracy. This is a rich interdisciplinary collection that is sure to surprise and illuminate all sides." - G. Scott Davis, Lewis T. Booker Professor of Religion and Ethics, University of Richmond, USA

About the authors

Anita L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania, USA Sahar F. Aziz Sahar Aziz, Texas A&M University School of Law, USA Michael Kent Curtis, Wake Forest University School of Law, USA Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University, USA John Kelsay, Florida State University in Tallahassee, USA Win-chiat Lee, Wake Forest University, USA Mark Lilla, Columbia University, USA Andrew F. March, Yale University, USA Richard Miller, University of Chicago Divinity School, USA J. Wilson Parker, Wake Forest University School of Law, USA Frank S. Ravitch, Michigan State University College of Law, USA William Schweiker, University of Chicago, USA

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