The Spirit of Hindu Law
The Spirit of Hindu Law by Donald R. Davis Jr Jr
English | 21 Jan. 2010 | ISBN: 0521877040 | 208 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | 21 Jan. 2010 | ISBN: 0521877040 | 208 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
Law is too often perceived solely as state-based rules and institutions that provide a rational alternative to religious rites and ancestral customs. The Spirit of Hindu Law uses the Hindu legal tradition as a heuristic tool to question this view and reveal the close linkage between law and religion. Emphasizing the household, the family, and everyday relationships as additional social locations of law, it contends that law itself can be understood as a theology of ordinary life.