This book argues that the shared adjudication model in which the state splits its adjudicative authority with religious groups and other societal sources in the regulation of marriage can potentially balance cultural rights and gender equality. In this model the civic and religious sources of legal authority construct, transmit and communicate heterogeneous notions of the conjugal family, gender relations and religious membership within the interstices of state and society. In so doing, they fracture the homogenized religious identities grounded in hierarchical gender relations within the conjugal family. The shared adjudication model facilitates diversity as it allows the construction of hybrid religious identities, creates fissures in ossified group boundaries and provides institutional spaces for ongoing intersocietal dialogue. This pluralized legal sphere, governed by ideologically diverse legal actors, can thus increase gender equality and individual and collective legal mobilization by women effects institutional change.
| ISBN: | 9781107610590 |
| Publication date: | 14th February 2013 |
| Author: | Gopika Carleton University, Ottawa Solanki |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 438 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Genres: |
Family law Religion: general |
This book argues that the shared adjudication model in which the state splits its adjudicative authority with religious groups and other societal sources in the regulation of marriage can potentially balance cultural rights and gender equality. In this model the civic and religious sources of legal authority construct, transmit and communicate heterogeneous notions of the conjugal family, gender relations and religious membership within the interstices of state and society. In so doing, they fracture the homogenized religious identities grounded in hierarchical gender relations within the conjugal family. The shared adjudication model facilitates diversity as it allows the construction of hybrid religious identities, creates fissures in ossified group boundaries and provides institutional spaces for ongoing intersocietal dialogue. This pluralized legal sphere, governed by ideologically diverse legal actors, can thus increase gender equality and individual and collective legal mobilization by women effects institutional change.
Adjudication in Religious Family Laws features in the following genres: Family law, Religion: general
Adjudication in Religious Family Laws is available in Paperback, Hardback
Adjudication in Religious Family Laws was written by Gopika Carleton University, Ottawa Solanki and published by Cambridge University Press
Adjudication in Religious Family Laws has 438 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series