A Multicultural Entrapment - Religion and State Among the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel

This book provides a critical look at Israel's religion and state conflict to shed new light on the constitutional forces defining Jewish-centered conflicts, rather than Palestinian-Arab centered conflicts. In particular, it highlights the ramifications of the theory and practice of multiculturalism in the context of a Middle Eastern legal order.

List of contents

1. Religion-and-state Conflict in Israel: The Separate and Different; 2. The Janus-Faced Religion and State Conflict in Israel; 3. Palestinian-Arab Religious Jurisdiction as an Individual Predicament; 4. The Acute Nature of the Palestinian-Arab Multicultural Predicament; 5. The Individual Predicament as Multicultural Entrapment; 6. The Voice of No Exit; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Michael Karayanni is Bruce W. Wayne Professor of Law at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Summary

The religion and state debate in Israel has overlooked the Palestinian-Arab religious communities and their members, focusing almost exclusively on Jewish religious institutions and norms and Jewish majority members. Because religion and state debates in many other countries are defined largely by minority religions' issues, the debate in Israel is anomalous. Michael Karayanni advances a legal matrix that explains this anomaly by referencing specific constitutional values. At the same time, he also takes a critical look at these values and presents the argument that what might be seen as liberal and multicultural is at its core just as illiberal and coercive. In making this argument, A Multicultural Entrapment suggests a set of multicultural qualifications by which one should judge whether a group based accommodation is of a multicultural nature.

Foreword

A critical legal study of religion and state relations in Israel focusing on the religiously entrapped Palestinian-Arab individuals.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Karayanni, Karayanni Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781108707176
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70717-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 500 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, LAW / General Practice, Law / Government / State, Provincial & Municipal, LAW / Legal Profession, LAW / Government / General, Politics & government, Comparative Politics, Politics and government, Government powers, Legal skills & practice, Legal skills and practice, Legal profession: general, Local government law, Legal profession / practice of law: general