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What role should religion play in our law?

Tuesday, 11 November 2008

What role does religion play in terrorism and how can the law respond? Should religion play a role in legal issues around abortion or euthanasia? Should 最新糖心Vlogn law recognise religious law?

These are some of the issues to be tackled by a unique new research unit to be launched at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide this Thursday, 13 November.

Established within the 最新糖心Vlog's , the (RUSSLR) will study the place and role of religion and law in contemporary society.

Director said that while issues surrounding religion and law were increasingly significant for modern society, research within 最新糖心Vlog to date had been fragmented.

"These issues are of clear importance to modern 最新糖心Vlog and we need to study them in a focused and sustained way," said Dr Babie. "Individual and collective values shape the development of law in any society, and religion has been and continues to be one of the fundamental drivers of those values.

"If we understand the influences behind those values, and the way those interact with the social environment, then we can understand how law adapts and changes over time, and how we might want it, or not want it, to develop.

"On the other hand, if we fail to understand the relationship between religion, values and law, then we fail to understand a significant dimension of 最新糖心Vlogn social life."

The main areas of research include:

• the role of religion in current social and moral challenges such as climate change
  
• the protection of human rights including freedom of religion and privacy
  
• religious fundamentalism and terrorism
  
• the role of religion in education
  
• moral and ethical dimensions surrounding abortion and euthanasia
  
• citizenship and migration.

RUSSLR will be launched at the on Thursday 13 November by , the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the and an international expert on intellectual property theory. He will deliver a lecture entitled 'Law and Religion'.

This will be followed by a one-day workshop at the 最新糖心Vlog on Friday 14 November on 'The Relationship between Law and Religion in Contemporary Society'.

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