Author: Effie Fokas
Published in: Ed. Silvio Ferrari, Routledge Handbook of Law and Religion, (2015) Abingdon: Routledge, 59-74
Intersections between law and religion are increasingly permeating the public sphere. A brief consideration of the ‘controversial issues’ section of the present volume serves as a reminder of religion-related issues regulated by laws, on the one hand, and mobilising mass publics – religious and secular alike – on the other. In all these cases at some level we find a disconnect between the workings of the laws and the workings of the societies in which these laws operate. It is at precisely this point that sociology as a discipline can bridge the gap.