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This is a very good book, for at least three distinct reasons. First, it is a major and coherent treatment of a topic which, although benefiting from a growing periodical literature in this country, has few such contributions compared with European or other Anglo-American jurisdictions. Secondly, it tackles the interaction between law and religion at several different levels: at the level of ideological conflict, at the level of competing constitutional models, and in the detail of several areas of legal regulation. Finally, it sets about its task with a high level of theoretical sophistication and against a remarkably broad scholarly background. The authors move effortlessly between biblical exegesis, theology, sociology of religion, political theory, constitutional principle, European and comparative jurisprudence and detailed statutory analysis. In doing so, they amply demonstrate the sheer complexity and interconnectedness of questions of law and religion.

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Professor Rex Ahdar: LLB (Hons), LLM (Canterbury) PhD (Otago), Barrister and Solicitor, High Court of New Zealand. Also Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, UC Berkeley, 1991. Professor Ian Leigh, LLB (Wales), LLM (Wales), Solicitor of the Supreme Court. Formerly held teaching positions at the universities of Newcastle, Northumbria, and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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