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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Anna C. Korteweg and Jennifer A. Selby Foreword by Jocelyne Cesari Klappentext Focusing on the legal ramifications of Sharia law in the context of rapidly changing Western liberal democracies, Debating Sharia approaches the issue from a variety of methodological perspectives. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the legal ramifications of Sharia law in the context of rapidly changing Western liberal democracies! Debating Sharia approaches the issue from a variety of methodological perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Introduction: Situating the Debate Foreword: Situating the Debate within Others in European and American Contexts Introduction - Situating the Debate in Ontario Part I. Practicing Religious Divorce among North-American Muslims 1. Practicing an 'Islamic Imagination': Islamic Divorce in North America 2. Faith-Based Arbitration or Religious Divorce: What was the Issue? Part II. Regulating Faith-Based Arbitration 3. Multiculturalism Meets Privatisation: The Case of Faith-Based Arbitration 4. 'Sharia' Courts in Canada: A Delayed Opportunity for the Indigenization of Islamic Legal Rulings." Part III. Defining Islamic Law in the West 5. Asking Questions About Sharia: Lessons From Ontario. 6. Islamic Law and the Canadian Mosaic: Politics, Jurisprudence, and Multicultural Accommodation. Part IV. Negotiating the Politics of Sharia-Based Arbitration 7. 'The 'Good' Muslim/'Bad' Muslim Puzzle?: The Assertion of Muslim Women's Islamic Identity in the Sharia Debates. 8. 'The Muslims Have Ruined Our Party:' A Case Study of Ontario Media Portrayals of Supporters of Faith-Based Arbitration. Part V. Analyzing Discourses of Race, Gender, and Religion 9. 'Sharia in Canada?' Mapping Discourses of Race, Gender and Religious Difference. 10. Agency and Representations: Voices and Silences in the Ontario Sharia Debate Part VI. Managing Religion in the Canadian State 11. Managing the Mosaic: The Work of Form in 'Dispute Resolution in Family Law: Protecting Choice, Promoting Inclusion.' 12. Construing the Secular: Implications of the Ontario Sharia Debate Concluding Thoughts Conclusion: Debating Sharia in the West List of Contributors ...
