Law And The Christian Tradition In Scandinavia

Author : Kjell Å Modéer,Helle Vogt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000201536

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Law and The Christian Tradition in Scandinavia by Kjell Å Modéer,Helle Vogt Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive history of law and religion in the Nordic context. The entwinement of law and religion in Scandinavia encompasses an unusual history, not widely known yet important for its impact on contemporary political and international relations in the region. The volume provides a holistic picture from the first written legal sources of the twelfth century to the law of the present secular welfare states. It recounts this history through biographical case studies. Taking the point of view of major influential figures in church, politics, university, and law, it thus presents the principal actors who served as catalysts in ecclesiastical and secular law through the centuries. This refreshing approach to legal history contributes to a new trend in historiography, particularly articulated by a younger generation of experienced Nordic scholars whose work is featured prominently in this volume. The collection will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal History and Law and Religion.

Author : Kjell Å Modéer,Helle Vogt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000201598

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Law and The Christian Tradition in Scandinavia by Kjell Å Modéer,Helle Vogt Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive history of law and religion in the Nordic context. The entwinement of law and religion in Scandinavia encompasses an unusual history, not widely known yet important for its impact on contemporary political and international relations in the region. The volume provides a holistic picture from the first written legal sources of the twelfth century to the law of the present secular welfare states. It recounts this history through biographical case studies. Taking the point of view of major influential figures in church, politics, university, and law, it thus presents the principal actors who served as catalysts in ecclesiastical and secular law through the centuries. This refreshing approach to legal history contributes to a new trend in historiography, particularly articulated by a younger generation of experienced Nordic scholars whose work is featured prominently in this volume. The collection will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal History and Law and Religion.

Author : Lisbet Christoffersen,Kjell Å Modéer,Svend Andersen
Publisher : Djoef Publishing
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134527790

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Law & Religion in the 21st Century by Lisbet Christoffersen,Kjell Å Modéer,Svend Andersen Pdf

Caspar David Friedrich's painting on the cover of this book is a metaphor: Scholarly relations between law & religion seemed to be destroyed through modernity. The book however argues for new life in the ruins. --

Author : Jaakko Husa,Kimmo Nuotio,Heikki Pihlajamäki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Antologier
ISBN : 9050957064

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Nordic Law by Jaakko Husa,Kimmo Nuotio,Heikki Pihlajamäki Pdf

Compares the laws of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Author : Ann-Marie Long
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004336513

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Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100 by Ann-Marie Long Pdf

In Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100: Memory, History and Identity, Ann-Marie Long reassesses the development of early Icelandic society and how it was memorialised, with particular attention given to the place of Norway in Icelandic cultural memory.

Author : Rosemarie van den Breemer,Jose Casanova,Trygve Wyller
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647604497

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Secular and Sacred? by Rosemarie van den Breemer,Jose Casanova,Trygve Wyller Pdf

Shaped by five hundred years of Lutheran impact and with a strong influence of big majority churches, Scandinavian secularity is a very interesting and fruitful material for the historical and contemporary theoretical debate on the secular. It can be discussed, for example, whether the strong position of Human Rights and of the Scandinavian welfare state might be interpreted in continuity with the historical influence of Protestant traditions. Is there something like a hidden sacrality implicit in the Scandinavian secular?

Author : John Witte, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108429207

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The Blessings of Liberty by John Witte, Jr. Pdf

A robust defense of the essential interdependence of human rights and religious freedom from antiquity to the present.

Author : Adams, Maurice,Van Hoecke, Mark
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781802201468

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Comparative Methods in Law, Humanities and Social Sciences by Adams, Maurice,Van Hoecke, Mark Pdf

This cutting-edge book facilitates debate amongst scholars in law, humanities and social sciences, where comparative methodology is far less well anchored in most areas compared to other research methods. It posits that these are disciplines in which comparative research is not simply a bonus, but is of the essence.

Author : Mattias Skat Sommer
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161594564

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Envisioning the Christian Society by Mattias Skat Sommer Pdf

Niels Hemmingsen (1513-1600) is one of the most influential Danish theologians in history. As a professor at the University of Copenhagen, Hemmingsen played an important role in moulding Danish society according to his understanding of Lutheranism during the second half of the sixteenth century. Drawing on sociology of knowledge, cultural memory, and confessional culture, Mattias Skat Sommer examines Hemmingsen's works and life in political and theological contexts. By studying Hemmingsen's role in forming a discourse of social interaction, the author argues that Hemmingsen was the leading agent in shaping post-Reformation Danish confessionalization. In doing so, Sommer emphasises the fluid boundaries of the Danish Reformation and adjusts two prominent theoretical frameworks discussed in contemporary research on early modern Europe, namely those of confessionalization and confessional culture.

Author : Harriet Jean Evans Tang
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Domestic animals in literature
ISBN : 9781843846437

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Animal-Human Relationships in Medieval Iceland by Harriet Jean Evans Tang Pdf

Domestic animals played a range of roles in the imaginative world of medieval Icelanders: from partners in settlement and household allies, to violent offenders, foster-kin and surrogate wives, they were vital and effective members of the multispecies communities established from the ninth century onwards. This book examines the domestic animals of early Iceland in their physical and textual contexts, through detailed analysis of the spaces and places of the Icelandic farm and farming landscape, and textual sources such as The Book of Settlements, the earliest Icelandic laws, and various episodes from the Sagas and Tales of Icelanders. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to animal-human relationships, it sees animals not solely as symbols, metaphors, or objects, but as subjects in affective relationships with their human co-settlers who become the focus of intense exploration, delight, anxiety and condemnation in later textual narratives. By inviting readers to question how these sources form, embrace, or reject animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.ect animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.ect animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.ect animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together.

Author : Miika Tolonen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625640734

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Witness Is Presence by Miika Tolonen Pdf

In a postsecular cultural situation the conditions for understanding and communicating a Christian tradition have changed. None of the established religions can any longer claim monopoly in the "marketplace of religions." A claim of this study is that a postsecular situation characterized, among other things, by dwindling memberships in established churches as well as a new visibility of alternative religious expressions, opens up a need to reflect on alternative ways of understanding Christianity in its context. This study focuses on the question, how can a Christian tradition be communicated understandably in a postsecular context? In traditional terms: how can Christian witness be understood in our situation? It is to this need, according to this study, that the ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas provides a meaningful perspective. This perspective becomes relevant because in a postsecular context a Christian church, even a folk church, cannot assume to be in a position of majority or power. There is, therefore, a need to ask how to understand Christianity as a community of witness that is neither in power nor a majority. The study suggests that embodiment of Christian convictions becomes a central factor in a meaningful postsecular notion of witness.

Author : Shannon Lewis-Simpson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047424048

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Youth and Age in the Medieval North by Shannon Lewis-Simpson Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume explores social, cultural and biological definitions of youth and age specific to the medieval north, and changing mentalities towards youth and age as a result of political, cultural, and religious transformations in the north.

Author : Lester B. Orfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B3453575

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The Growth of Scandinavian Law by Lester B. Orfield Pdf

Author : J. Thilderkvist
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789492444455

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Ritual Bones or Common Waste by J. Thilderkvist Pdf

This book addresses the problems of identifying human actions behind finds of bones in settlement archaeology, exemplified with the identification of ritual deposits. In order to formulate a methodological framework for approaching the identification of ritual deposits, different methods are tested on four Early Medieval case studysites: Dongjum and Leeuwarden, two artificial dwelling mounds situated in the then undiked salt marches of the Northern Netherlands, Midlaren, an inland settlement in Drenthe, also in the Northern Netherlands, and finally Uppåkra, a central place in the South of Sweden. The bone fragments from the four materials are studied in a five step process of definition, description, identification, interpretation and explanation. The deposits are discussed with the help of various archaeological, ethnographic and historical sources. The results of the analysis lead to a methodological framework for understanding individual deposits based on a holistic perspective where all information is regarded as potentially valuable, various methods are taken into consideration, and simplification is avoided.

Author : Shaheen Sardar Ali,Anne Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317131588

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From Transnational Relations to Transnational Laws by Shaheen Sardar Ali,Anne Griffiths Pdf

This book approaches law as a process embedded in transnational personal, religious, communicative and economic relationships that mediate between international, national and local practices, norms and values. It uses the concept "living law" to describe the multiplicity of norms manifest in transnational moral, social or economic practices that transgress the territorial and legal boundaries of the nation-state. Focusing on transnational legal encounters located in family life, diasporic religious institutions and media events in countries like Norway, Sweden, Britain and Scotland, it demonstrates the multiple challenges that accelerated mobility and increased cultural and normative diversity is posing for Northern European law. For in this part of the world, as elsewhere, national law is challenged by a mixture of expanding human rights obligations and unprecedented cultural and normative pluralism enhanced by expanding global communication and market relations. As a consequence, transnationalization of law appears to create homogeneity, fragmentation and ambiguity, expanding space for some actors while silencing others. Through the lens of a variety of important contemporary subjects, the authors thus engage with the nature of power and how it is accommodated, ignored or resisted by various actors when transnational practices encounter national and local law.