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Religion and Law in Independent / edited by Robert D Baird

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi: Lordson Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 2005Edition: 2nd edDescription: 518p.; 22cmISBN:
  • 9788173045882
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.109 REL
Contents:
1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. Religion & Law in India: Adjusting to the Sacred as Secular; 4. Religion & Secularism Under the Indian Constitution; 5. Indias Constitution & Traditional Presuppositions Regarding Human Nature; 6. On Defining Hinduism as a Religious & Legal Category; 7. Mandal, Mandir, Masjid: The Citizen as Endangered Species in Independent India; 8. Muslim Personal Law & Political Identity in Independent India; 9. Interaction of Islam & Public Law in Independent India; 10. The Shah Bano Case: Some Political Implications; 11. Sikhs & the Law: A Century of Conflict over Identity & Authority; 12. The Personal Laws or a Uniform Civil Code?; 13. Religion, Politics & Law in Contemporary India: Judicial Doctrine in Critical Perspective; 14. Women, Children & the Constitution: Hostages to religion, Outcaste; Law; 15. Devadasi Reform: Driving the Priestesses or the Prostitutes Out of Hindu Temples?; 16. Renunciation & Law in India; 17. Auroville & the Courts in India: Religion & Secular; 18. To Convert or Not to Convert: Legal & Political Dimensions of Conversion in Independent India; 19. Conflict in the Courts: Cates & Religious Conversion in the Indian Secular State; 20. How Not to Be a Hindu: The Case of the Ramakrishna Mission; 21. Recognition & Legislation of Private Religious Endowments in Indian Law; 22. A Persistent Disjunction: Parallel Realms of Law in India; 23. Reflections on Law & Meaningfulness in a North Indian Hindu Village; 24. Index of Cases; 25. Index.
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Include Indexes.

1. Preface;
2. Introduction;
3. Religion & Law in India: Adjusting to the Sacred as Secular;
4. Religion & Secularism Under the Indian Constitution;
5. Indias Constitution & Traditional Presuppositions Regarding Human Nature;
6. On Defining Hinduism as a Religious & Legal Category;
7. Mandal, Mandir, Masjid: The Citizen as Endangered Species in Independent India;
8. Muslim Personal Law & Political Identity in Independent India;
9. Interaction of Islam & Public Law in Independent India;
10. The Shah Bano Case: Some Political Implications;
11. Sikhs & the Law: A Century of Conflict over Identity & Authority;
12. The Personal Laws or a Uniform Civil Code?;
13. Religion, Politics & Law in Contemporary India: Judicial Doctrine in Critical Perspective;
14. Women, Children & the Constitution: Hostages to religion, Outcaste; Law;
15. Devadasi Reform: Driving the Priestesses or the Prostitutes Out of Hindu Temples?;
16. Renunciation & Law in India;
17. Auroville & the Courts in India: Religion & Secular;
18. To Convert or Not to Convert: Legal & Political Dimensions of Conversion in Independent India;
19. Conflict in the Courts: Cates & Religious Conversion in the Indian Secular State;
20. How Not to Be a Hindu: The Case of the Ramakrishna Mission;
21. Recognition & Legislation of Private Religious Endowments in Indian Law;
22. A Persistent Disjunction: Parallel Realms of Law in India;
23. Reflections on Law & Meaningfulness in a North Indian Hindu Village;
24. Index of Cases;
25. Index.

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