Law & religion are -- apart from force -- the most important organized means of social control, & often they interact in both directions. Both also deeply affect notions of morality, & are affected by them. For this volume Alan Watson has brought together some of the most distinguished scholars of law & religion in the world, with the intention of throwing light on aspects of this interaction at various times & in various places. The papers range from the treatment of a complete historical system to one significant event. Contributors who deal with the Old Testament are Calum M. Carmichael, David Daube, Ze'ev W. Falk & John F. A. Sawyer. Geoffrey MacCormack writes on law & religion in traditional China & Richard W. Lariviere treats India. David Powers shows the wide implications of a particular case in Islamic law, & Walter Otto Weyrauch deals with today's world in "Aspirations & Reality in American Law." Watson, himself, in two papers writes on archaic Rome & on Late Antiquity.