God and the Secular Legal System / Rafael Domingo.

includes index and biblioraphy

1 God as a metalegal concept ...23 1. Introduction ...23 2. God and gods ...25 3. Metalegal concepts ...29 4. God as a metalegal concept ...32 5 The legal recognition of god as a metalegal concept ...44 6. The religious objection ...49 7. The Dworkinian objection ...56 8. The moral objection ...60 9. The legal objection ...63 10. Religon, not god,as a matter of toleration ...65 11. Recovering the dialogue between theology and jurisprudence ...68 12. conclusion ...71 2 Religion as a constitutional limit of the secular legal system ....73 1. Introduction ...73 2. Legal identification of religion ...73 3. Suprartionality as the ultimate justification of the legal protection of religion ...79 4. The exclusion of suprartional acts from the secular legal system ...82 5. Tolerating suprarational law ...86 6. The suprarational argument as an irrelevant legal argument ...88 7. Structural dualism as a constitutional limit of the secular legal system ...92 8. The election of the dualistic model as a constitutional decision ....98 9. Autonomy and independence of religious communities ...104 10. Religious equality and equality of religions the false neutrality ...107 11. The right to religion ...113 12. The religious exception ...117 13. Conclusion ...120 3 Conscience as a private limit of the secular legal system ...122 1. Introduction ...122 2.Significance of conscience ...125 3. Conscience and dignity ...131 4. Puplic morality verus private morality ..133 5 Conscience as a private moral limit of the secular legal system ...136 6. Freedom of conscience : between freedom of thought and freeedom of religion ...138 7. Aright to religious and moral freedom ? ...142 8. Ethical independence verus moral authonomy ...146 9. Moral accommodation verus religious toleration ...151 10. Privilege of abstention and conscientious refusal ...155 11.Privilage of abstention verus religious exception ...161 12. Conclusion ...164