Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality, and Gender: A Critique of New Natural Law

by Nicholas Bamforth and David A.J. Richards

Book Overview

Fundamentalist forms of religion today claim authority everywhere, including the debates over the politics and constitutional law of liberal democracies. This book examines this general question through its critical evaluation of a recent school of thought: that of the new natural lawyers. The new natural lawyers are the lawyers of the current Vatical hierarchy, polemically concerned to defend its retrograde views on matters of sexuality and gender...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521173361
• ISBN13: 9780521173360
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"