Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Law as Religion, Religion as Law
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 113-150
Keywords:
Jewish law Methodology
;
Religion and law
Abstract:
This paper examines the methodological problems presented by the relationship between law and religion, and the tensions between internal and external approaches. It argues for a (neutral) semiotic approach: the basics of sense construction, as understood by the Greimasian model of semiotics, are the same for both law and religion. At the same time, the model allows for the identification of differences. But it also problematizes the value of the concepts themselves: who, we may ask, needs to talk about either “law” or “religion” as such a very different question from that of the characterization of particular acts or norms as “legal” or “religious?”. “Law as Religion: Religion as Law” is thus a secondary (or meta-) question addressing the relationship between institutional concepts rather than human behaviour in either its factual or normative dimensions. It may, however, figure large in the rhetoric of religious politics, whose full understanding requires us to narrativise the pragmatics (speech behaviour) of its various participants.
DOI:
10.1017/9781108760997.006
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