Diaspora and Law: Culture, Religion, and Jurisprudence beyond Sovereignty

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023

Diaspora and Law

Culture, Religion, and Jurisprudence beyond Sovereignty

Edited by: Liliana Ruth Feierstein and Daniel Weidner

Volume 66 in the series Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111062631

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About this book

Today, law is no longer homogenous or unquestioned. Different overlapping legal systems constantly interfere with one another, both on an international level, in complex transnational contexts such as the European Union or human rights law, but also in the context of cultural diversity or conflicts between religious norms and civil institutions, between minorities and the power of the state. On the other hand, the neutrality of law is also under growing pressure, be it from different global transnational players, or from within nation states where calls are made to adapt law to the will of "the people." The heated European debate on the "refugee crisis" has made it manifest that law is more necessary than ever and yet fundamentally contested, perhaps even caught in contradictions and self-limitations. At the same time, the current perspective on legal problems allows us to address issues of diversity and the role of Europe in the globalized world more clearly. The articles of this book take these recent developments and debates as a starting point to discuss from the perspective of different disciplines the pressing question of how to live together in the new millennium and how to figure the long history of law before, besides, and after the dominant paradigm of state law.

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Liliana Ruth Feierstein, Berlin, und Daniel Weidner, Halle, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: Law beyond Sovereignty Liliana Ruth Feierstein and Daniel Weidner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Diaspora
An Exile of the Soul: A Theological Examination of Jewish Understandings of Diaspora Susannah Heschel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Diaspomenos: Hermeneutics of Exile Ino Augsberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
II. Traditions of Plurality
Law without Nation? The Ongoing Jewish Discussion Suzanne Last Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Dina de-malkhuta dina and Talmudic Divorce Law: A Challenge for Rabbinic Law in Diaspora Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
The Transformation of Sharia from a Law-Centered Understanding to Ethics: An Overview Serdar Kurnaz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
III. Law and Religion
Der Wandel von einem personalen zu einem territorialen Rechtsverständnis in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit Martin Heger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Towards a Jewish Theology of Secular Law Elisa Klapheck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
IV. Legal Pluralism in Concrete Action
Halacha and Medical Law at the End of Life Stephan M. Probst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
“He was lain to rest in the Darkening of the Tides …”: Death and Burial in the Field of Tension between Competing Laws in Latin America Liliana Ruth Feierstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
V. Law and Literature in the Diaspora
Law and Literature in Diaspora: Gandhi’s Autobiography Klaus Stierstorfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Star Trek: Diaspora and Law in the German-Jewish Imagination Caspar Battegay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Wissenschaftler/-innen aus den Bereichen Judaistik, Rechtswissenschaften, Soziologie und Religionswissenschaften.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 214
Keywords: Diaspora; Law and Minorities; National State; Jewish History

eBook

Published: September 18, 2023
ISBN: 9783111062631

Hardcover

Published: September 18, 2023
ISBN: 9783111061849