Family, Religion and Law

Cultural Encounters in Europe. Edited by Prakash Shah, Marie-Claire Foblets, and Mathias Rohe
Herausgeber: Shah, Prakash; Foblets, Marie-Claire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection discusses how official legal systems respond to the reality of a plurality of family types and origins within their jurisdictions. Presenting empirical research which includes legal and sociological data of unprecedented comparative depth, the volume addresses issues such as how minority families respond to the need to organise their legal relationships and resolve their disputes in the shadow of official legal systems which differ from those of their familial and communal traditions. The book invites reflection and demonstrates the urgency and complexity of the questions regarding the search for justice in the field of family life in Europe today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781138245600
• ISBN-10: 1138245607
• Artikelnr.: 57046029

Autorenporträt

Dr Prakash Shah is Reader in Culture and Law, and Director of GLOCUL: The Centre for Culture and Law at Queen Mary University of London. He specializes in legal pluralism, religion and law, ethnic minorities and diasporas in law, immigration, refugee and nationality law, and comparative law with special reference to South Asia. He has published widely and lectured internationally in these fields. Professor Marie-Claire Foblets is Director of the Department of Law & Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany. For many years she headed the Institute for Migration Law and Legal Anthropology at the Law Faculty at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. She currently leads the RELIGARE research project financed by the European Commission under its 7th Framework Programme. Prof.Dr. Mathias Rohe is Chair for Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University Erlangen-Nÿrnberg, Germany. He is also Director of the Erlangen Centre for Islam and law in Europe, a judge at the court of appeals Nÿrnberg (retired), member of the German Islam Conferences (Ministry of the Interior) and the Austrian Islam Dialogue Forum (State secretary). He is the author of numerous publications and lectures on Islamic law in the past and present, Private International law, Comparative law and legal issues related to Muslims in Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Family, Religion and Law in Europe: Embracing Diversity from the
Perspective of 'Cultural Encounters', Marie-Claire Foblets; Chapter 1
Distorting Minority Laws? Religious Diversity and European Legal Systems,
Prakash Shah; Chapter 2 Plurality-Conscious Rebalancing of Family Law
Regulation in Europe, Werner Menski; Chapter 3 Family and the Law in
Europe: Bringing Together Secular Legal Orders and Religious Norms and
Needs, Mathias Rohe; Chapter 4 On the Cooperation between Religious and
State Institutions in Family Matters: Nordic Experiences, Maarit
Jänterä-Jareborg; Chapter 5 The Uniformisation of Family Law in Europe and
the Place of Ethnic Minorities, Domenico Francavilla; Chapter 6 Defending
the Family Treasure Chest: Navigating Muslim Families and Secured
Positivistic Islands of European Legal Systems, Federica Sona; Chapter 7
Cross-border Family Cases and Religious Diversity: What Can Judges Do?,
Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg; Chapter 8 Secrets and Lies: When Ethnic Minority
Youth Have a Nikah, Anika Liversage; Chapter 9 'Without Our Church We Will
Disappear': Syrian Orthodox Christians in Diaspora and the Family Law of
the Church, Annika Rabo; Chapter 10 Religious Divorce in England and Wales:
Religious Tribunals in Action, Gillian Douglas, Russell Sandberg, Norman
Doe, Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Asma Khan; Chapter 11 Kurdish 'Unofficial' Family
Law in the Gurbet, Latif Ta?;