Religious Roots of Europe: Law and Religion in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

<p>Are you curious about how law and religion have shaped societies throughout history? What happens when religious and secular law come into conflict? </p><p>This course explores the relationship between law and religion in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. You follow the development of these traditions from antiquity to the present and learn how each religion has formed its own legal ideas and practices. </p><p>The course consists of three modules and begins by looking at what “law” and “religion” actually mean, and how these concepts are understood in both legal and religious studies. In the second module, you move into the long late Antiquity (0-1000 CE), when the three religions emerged and interacted with each other as well as with Greco Roman thought and legal systems. Finally in the third module, you study specific places and contemporary cases where religion and law meet: at home, in places of worship, within the state, and in courts of law. </p><p>This last module may also include an extended field trip abroad. </p><p><br/></p>