Law and Religion

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This class will take a dive on the legal and social science approach and interaction with the issue and topic of religion. After defining how Law and Religion is a discipline and the relationship between the two, this course will divide itself into three parts. First, we will examine the topic of religion and its relationship with the law through the frameworks of history, sociology, and anthropology. It will trace the major stages of how religion is treated as an object of the social sciences and law. Secondly, we will examine the different consequences that come forth from the different frameworks by discussing international law, French law, and North American law and their interaction with religion. Finally, we will dive deeper into real life cases that will allow us to question how the previously identified are articulated there. Therefore, to conclude, we will look at legal pluralism and the dialogues between religious rights and state rights of religion.