Law and the Rule of God: A Christian-Muslim Exchange
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Joshua B. Ralston
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
McFarland, Ian
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Emory University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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313
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Loesel, Steffen C.; Martin, Richard C.; McDougall, Joy C.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-84472-6
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Religion
Body granting the degree
Emory University
Text preceding or following the note
2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This dissertation leverages political theology and comparative theology to engage longstanding debates over the place and function of law in Muslim-Christian relations. By adopting a comparative approach, I seek to avoid two routes that dominate most discussions of political theology in Christian-Muslim exchange. One leans strongly on the legal apparatuses of secularism, and thus too quickly silences religious commitments and their critiques of modernity; and the other attempts to reassert the ultimacy of religious community over and against the secular state largely through reinscribing old battle lines between Christendom and the dar al-Islam. Instead, I argue that debates regarding Shar i'a secularism, and law can be productively reframed by attending to the history of debate over the law in Christian-Muslim encounter and also the nuanced perspectives regarding public law within the theo-legal discourse of both Islam and Christianity.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Law; Theology
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Barth, karl;Christian-muslim relations;Islamic law;Political theology;Secularism;Shari'a and fiqh