Online guide to religious legal systems written by Marylin Johnson Raisch who is International and Foreign Law librarian at the John Wolff International and Comparative Law Library of the Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC. The guide was published on the Globalex website in 2006 (and updated in 2022) and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author provides an introduction to religious law and general sources of information on the subject both online and printed. There are sections covering Islamic law, Jewish law, Christian Canon law, Hindu law, Buddhist Law and Confucian Law each section giving essential facts on that particular law and details of Internet, book and article sources available. There is also a list giving details of how religious law is implemented in a number of jurisdictions giving links to the relevant legal text.
Religious legal systems in comparative law: a guide to introductory research
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