Issues surrounding parental denial of medical care for children in need has unexpectedly emerged as one of the most contentious issues in health law policy this year. Parents have cited religious reasons or personal preferences for alternative medical therapy as justification to refuse such treatment. Although the ability of a parent to consent to potentially life-saving medical therapy for a c...

The present article seeks to carry out along the lines of interpretation of the recent Portuguese Constitutional Court case law on the possibility of an employee to observe a worship day imposed by religious beliefs. In this approach to the question, considerations on the subject of the relationship between religious freedom and labour relations will inevitably arise. We intend to draw conclusi...

Legal analysis of church-state relations in European countries presupposes a concept or at least a notion of the state. The concept is largely avoided in contemporary legal and political theory. Nonetheless, Western and Central European Continental legal systems, including the Croatian Draft Law on the Legal Position of Religious Communities of April 2002, tacitly presuppose the idea that the s...

The physician-patient relationship, which is the cornerstone of medical practice, is based upon a transaction between a sufferer and a healer. The healer is not only confronted with the patient's immediate medical needs but also with psycho-social problems which the illness causes, or is caused by. The physician therefore fulfills many functions: those of a technologist, philosopher, priest, so...

discussing fundamental problems of sexuality and its related respects could help religious scholars to find out a deeper understanding and analysis of islamic teachings. the problem of hijab in the islamic teachings is investigated concerning its various aspects. in this article, the celestial reality of hijab in the structure of the names of allah is analyzed. the approach of this article is i...

For years, policy makers have debated how to deal with customary tenure —sometimes known as ―informal,‖ ―indigenous,‖ or ―traditional law.‖ This concern arises because dual (or multiple) legal systems co-exist in many countries: statutory law alongside informal, customary practices, religious law, etc. Educated urban elites tend to use the statutory system while rural citizens, the less educate...

in religious jurisprudence, exhaustive discussions have put forward about the effect of finding that the witness was disqualified at the time of giving of evidence and effect of losing of qualifications after giving of evidence and before rendering of judgment on the evidence that is got and the judgment that is rendered on basis of it and exist various opinions about some varieties in spite of...

one of the requisites for proper understanding of the legal statutes (nuṣūṣ) is that the legislator and the jurist, along with other wise people in various scenes of life, should enjoy collective wisdom and, besides having their own personal viewpoints, they should possess general consciousness and mental background; as this collective consciousness can have a significant role in proper underst...