ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the rules which particular religions have adopted about how to treat and interact with non-members of their faiths. It examines the methods by which secular state law can encourage and support the achievement of a standard of 'good mutual living' for all. The chapter explores, in short, not only ways in which law, in the absence of love, may offer an opportunity for growth and understanding of Other, but also, and much more importantly, how law animated by love may foster that understanding and lead to unity. It hopes to demonstrate that both law and religion have at their core the need to encounter others in positive ways. Both religion and law are, at their core, the mediation of relationships, within which the neo-liberal individual encounters the other. And it is contention that this role as mediator, whether found in secular/civil law or in religion, has as its fundamental attribute a conception of love common to both.
