Religious Law and Church-State Relations

Companion pieces on legal disputes between a state and a religious organization, covering the recognition, taxation or dissolution of a religious body, and pieces on the internal legal status religious law itself holds within a jurisdiction. Belongs here: the two-part account of the 2017 extremism liquidation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia and its later European Court reversal, the two-part account of the Tai Ji Men land tax dispute in Taiwan, the two-part account of the Unification Church dissolution case in Japan, the record of canon law as the Catholic Church's own internal legal system, and the record of sharia's four distinct legal statuses across jurisdictions. Does not belong here: a piece whose primary subject is a court's general jurisprudence or a statute's general subject matter, where a religious body happens to be a party, grouped by that subject instead.