ABSTRACT

The comparison of the internal laws of the Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Hindu religions in terms of affiliation reveals a very heterogeneous picture with, however, a double fault line between Hindu law and other religious laws and between Muslim and Jewish laws and Christian laws. If religious laws have always been evolving, globalisation and the inclusion of the religious phenomenon within plurality have accentuated an irreversible process that highlights the porosity between the different models of internal law of religions, as well as between them and the foundation of common values. In the Jewish religion, Hebrew law also plays a decisive role. Its jurisdiction does not stop at the synagogues; far from it. It extends to all areas of existence and, in a way, the whole of existence falls under religious law. Certainly, personal status exists, but it emerges from secular law on the basis of an attempt to unify characteristics, rather than from religious law.