Religious law

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Religious law includes ethical and moral codes taught by religious traditions. Examples of religiously derived legal codes include Christian canon law (applicable within a wider theological conception in the church, but in modern times distinct from secular state law^[1]), Jewish halakha, Islamic sharia, and Hindu law.^[2]