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A Terrible Purity: International Law, Morality, Religion, Exclusion, Tawia Ansah
A Terrible Purity: International Law, Morality, Religion, Exclusion, Tawia Ansah
Cornell International Law Journal
Explores the separations, constructions, & barriers between law & religion from both a secular & religious perspective. Maintaining boundaries between law & religion often results in the construction of the repudiated religious Other. Creation of a public/private divide is based on an exclusion that functions like what psychoanalysts call abjection. However, the abject (religion) is a latent source of creativity that remains outside the domain of the law but weakens it as the primary site of authority. Removing religion from the sidelines of public juridical dialogue reduces the constraining power of discourse & widens the states discretion. The failure of …