Adjudication in Religious Family Laws: Cultural Accommodation, Legal Pluralism, and Gender Equality in India
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Law and Society Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1107610591
ISBN13:9781107610590
Release Date:February 2013
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:438 Pages
Weight:1.28 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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