Routledge-Giappichelli Religion, Law and Economies in the Mediterranean Space

The Book Series intends to provide room for interdisciplinary analysis focused on the interrelation of religious, social, economic, and legal dynamics. Particular attention will be paid to the role of religions and their institutions as discursive heritages mobilized in the construction of political and economic systems. Consequently, the series intends to host those contributions that, with a particular attention to the religious phenomenology, in a diachronic and dynamic perspective, are able to grasp the interdependence between the manifold corporate forms of the Mediterranean area, with special attention to the connection between its two shores. The idea is that contemporary globalization deepens and highlights forms of osmosis between different social systems by proposing old questions in new scenarios. Globalization - and the pluralism it entails - confronts the post Second World War constitutional democratic model based on the universality of human rights with the burden of realizing its promises, thus reactivating tensions between contemporary universalistic pushes and modern nationalistic reactions. Religions and economies; State, international and religious rights and soft laws are part of this transformation that combines, on both shores, modern and contemporary paradigms in a new balance.