Christianity and International Law: An Introduction

Description

This cross-disciplinary collaboration offers historical and contemporary scholarship exploring the interface of Christianity and international law. Christianity and International Law aims to understand and move past arguments, narratives and tropes that commonly frame law-religion studies in global governance. Readers are introduced to a range of confessional and critical perspectives explicitly engaging a diverse range of methodological and theoretical orientations to rethink how we experience and find ourselves caught within the phenomena of Christianity and international law.

Pamela Slotte is Professor of Religion and Law at Abo Akademi University, and Vice-director of the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives at the University of Helsinki. Her previous publications include Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights (2015) and The Juridification of Religion? (2017). Her work is located in the interfaces between law, theology and moral philosophy. John D. Haskell is Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester Law School. His previous publications include Political Economy and Law (2015) and Political Theology and International Law (2018). His work focuses on the sociology of expertise at the intersection of law, money, religion and technology.

'These chapters in combination make a powerful reflection on Christianity and International Law: it is no introduction, it is the thing itself.' Malcolm D. Evans, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion