Human Rights Under State-Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt and India

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-107-04140-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 319 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 675 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

About one-third of the world's population currently lives under pluri-legal systems where governments hold individuals subject to the purview of ethno-religious rather than national norms in respect to family law. How does the state-enforcement of these religious family laws impact fundamental rights and liberties? What resistance strategies do people employ in order to overcome the disabilities and limitations these religious laws impose upon their rights? Based on archival research, court observations and interviews with individuals from three countries, Yüksel Sezgin shows that governments have often intervened in order to impress a particular image of subjectivity upon a society, while people have constantly challenged the interpretive monopoly of courts and state-sanctioned religious institutions, re-negotiated their rights and duties under the law, and changed the system from within. He also identifies key lessons and best practices for the integration of universal human rights principles into religious legal systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sezgin, Y. Ksel

Sezgin, Yüksel

Sezgin, Yuksel

Sezgin, Yeuksel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Personal status, nation-building, and the postcolonial state; 3. The impact of state-enforced personal status laws on human rights; 4. A fragmented confessional system: state-enforced religious family laws and human rights in Israel; 5. A unified confessional system: state-enforced religious family laws and human rights in Egypt; 6. A unified semi-confessional system: state-enforced religious family laws and human rights in India; 7. Conclusion: upholding human rights under religious legal systems.

Über Autor(innen)

Sezgin, Yüksel
Yüksel Sezgin is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, where his research and teaching interests include legal pluralism, informal justice systems, comparative religious law, and human and women's rights in the context of the Middle East, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.