Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
55. Is Indigenous law religious?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Dana Lloyd [+]
Villanova University
Dana Lloyd is Assistant Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University. She holds a PhD in Religion from Syracuse University, and LLB and LLM degrees from Tel Aviv Law School. Her book manuscript, Arguing for This Land: Rethinking Indigenous Sacred Sites, is under contract with University Press of Kansas.
Description
Indigenous scholars and legal practitioners tell us that for many of their communities there is no distinction between law, creation stories, and ceremony. Does this make Indigenous law religious? If so, should the State recognize Indigenous legal systems as legitimate competitors of the State’s official (secular) legal system? These questions have different answers in different contexts, which I explore in this chapter.