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Why Religion? Towards a Critical Philosophy of Law, Peace and God

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Editors:
  1. Dawid Bunikowski

    1. State University of Applied Sciences in Wloclawek, Wloclawek, Poland

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  2. Alberto Puppo

    1. School of Law, ITAM, Mexico City, Mexico

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  • Presents a critical and constructive approach to God and peace
  • Offers a refreshing analysis of natural law theory and religious standpoints
  • Shows the connection between religious beliefs and wars

Part of the book series: Law and Religion in a Global Context (LRGC, volume 2)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Philosophical, Legal and Political Significance of a Critical Assessment of God, Ethics and Religions

    • Dawid Bunikowski, Alberto Puppo
    Pages 1-24

  3. Peace Through Religion in Moral Philosophy and Natural Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Jurisprudence Is About Both Divine and Human Things

      • Dawid Bunikowski
      Pages 27-50

    3. Arthur F. Utz’s Thomism: Domestic Peace as Social Justice

      • Giorgio Baruchello
      Pages 51-70

    4. Philosophical and Theological Aspects in the Thought of Johannes Althusius

      • Gerson Leite de Moraes, Daniel Francisco Nagao Menezes
      Pages 71-84

    5. Living Well Together: Insights from a Philosopher, a Theologian and a Legal Scholar

      • Diana Ginn, Edward R. Lewis
      Pages 85-97

  4. Secular Peace Through Universal Religions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. A Theological Justification for Freedom of Religion and Belief as a Universal Right

      • Jessica Giles
      Pages 101-136

    3. Islam, Europe, and the Problem of Peace

      • Zachary R. Calo
      Pages 137-156

    4. Humanity as the Ground for Universal Human Rights in Islamic Law

      • Recep Şentürk
      Pages 157-172

  6. The Political/Religious Dimension of Dramatic Social Events

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
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    2. Blake’s Dialectical Theism

      • Bernard Wills
      Pages 257-267

    3. Some Remarks on “Adulthood” in Walter Benjamin’s Experience and Poverty

      • Daniel R. Esparza
      Pages 269-279

    4. The Dreyfus Affair and the Rise of Political Religion in France

      • Anna Budzanowska, Tomasz Pietrzykowski
      Pages 281-297
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About this book

This book examines the relation between religion and jurisprudence, God, and peace respectively. It argues that in order to elucidate the possible role religion can play in the contemporary world, it is useful to analyse religion by associating it with other concepts. Why peace? Because peace is probably the greatest promise made by religions and the greatest concern in the contemporary world. Why jurisprudence? Because, quoting Kelsen’s famous book "Peace through Law", peace is usually understood as something achievable by international legal instruments. But what if we replace "Peace through Law" with "Peace through Religion"? Does law, as an instrument for achieving peace, incorporate a religious dimension? Is law, ultimately, a religious and normative construction oriented to peace, to the protection of humanity, in order to keep humans from the violence of nature? Is the hope for peace rational, or just a question of faith? Is religion itself a question of faith or a rational choice? Is the relatively recent legal concept of “responsibility to protect” a secular expression of the oldest duty of humankind?
The book follows the structure of interdisciplinary research in which the international legal scholar, the moral philosopher, the philosopher of religion, the theologian, and the political scientist contribute to the construction of the necessary bridges. Moreover, it gives voice to different monotheistic traditions and, more importantly, it analyses religion in the various dimensions in which it determines the authors' cultures: as a set of rituals, as a source of moral norms, as a universal project for peace, and as a political discourse.


Editors and Affiliations

  • State University of Applied Sciences in Wloclawek, Wloclawek, Poland

    Dawid Bunikowski

  • School of Law, ITAM, Mexico City, Mexico

    Alberto Puppo

About the editors

Dawid Bunikowski, born in northern Poland, residing in Finnish North Karelia, has a Doctor of Law (from Nicolaus Copernicus University). He is a philosopher of law and pursues cross-disciplinary research. He cooperates with the University of the Arctic (as Leader of the Sub-group of Philosophy of Law), Cardiff Centre for Law and Religion and the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include legal theory, law and morality, law and religion.
 
Alberto Puppo is Professor of Legal Theory at the ITAM Law School (México). He holds a doctorate in Analytical Philosophy and General Theory of Law from the University of Milan. He is the author of Acceptation et normativité: la force du devoir dans le discours juridique and the co-author, with Sévane Garibian, of Normas, valores, poderes. Ensayos sobre positivismo y derecho internacional. His main field of interest is international legal theory, especially Kelsen’s theory.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Why Religion? Towards a Critical Philosophy of Law, Peace and God

  • Editors: Dawid Bunikowski, Alberto Puppo

  • Series Title: Law and Religion in a Global Context

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35484-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35483-1Published: 12 February 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35486-2Published: 12 February 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35484-8Published: 11 February 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2946-5931

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-594X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 297

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Fundamentals of Law, Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Society

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