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| 100 | 1 | _aYüksel Sezgin | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aHuman rights under state-enforced religious family laws in Israel, Egypt, and India / |
| 250 | _a1st ed. | ||
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_aNew Delhi _bCambridge University Press _c2013 |
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_a301 _c24 cm. |
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| 490 | 0 | _aCambridge studies in law and society | |
| 500 | _aAbout 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, Y?ksel 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. | ||
| 505 | _a1. 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. | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aHuman rights | |
| 650 | 0 | _aHuman rights | |
| 650 | 0 | _aHuman rights | |
| 650 | 0 | _aDomestic relations | |
| 650 | 0 | _aDomestic relations | |
| 650 | 0 | _aDomestic relations | |
| 650 | 0 | _aReligion and law | |
| 650 | 0 | _aReligion and law | |
| 650 | 0 | _aReligion and law | |
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