Panel: (UN)EQUAL COMPARISONS: MOVING BEYOND SIMPLISTIC COMPARISONS AND WESTERN HEGEMONY IN COMPARATIVE LAW, RELIGION, AND THEOLOGY



480.2 - RESEARCH METHODOLOGY FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY LAW AND THEOLOGY STUDIES

AUTHORS:
Giles J. (The Open University ~ Milton Keynes ~ United Kingdom)
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This presentation explores a methodological approach for synthesizing legal and theological theory to support the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. The Method for Interdisciplinary Research (Tobi and Kampen 2019) identifies an iterative approach to allow research questions to drive the research into various disciplines and methodologies to come up with synthesised hypothesise to address. The focus here will be on theological and legal approaches to human rights that are synthesised to address an approach to the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion supportive of peaceful plural living together.