A Multicultural Entrapment
A Multicultural Entrapment
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.
- Provides new inroads into the long standing religion and state conflict in Israel that thus far was Jewish-centered
- Offers examples of the acute predicament of minority individuals governed by their religious laws in the context of a nation religious state
- Reveals individual empowerment legal strategies in the face of the religious nation state structure and the patriarchal authority of religious communities
Reviews & endorsements
'The book is very important, rich, and instructive. It offers a new perspective for those interested in learning about religion and state in Israel or about often disregarded issues related to the Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel.' Nohad ‘Ali, Israel Studies Review
‘… a groundbreaking contribution to the discourse on multiculturalism, minorities within minorities, and the dynamics of religion-State interactions in Israel, beyond conventional Jewish-centric perspectives … the book will continue to inspire and inform many more future debates on multiculturalism and policies of multicultural accommodation, leaving a lasting impact on the field.’ Talia Fisher, Revue critique de droit international privé
Product details
December 2020Hardback
9781108485463
200 pages
150 × 230 × 25 mm
0.65kg
Available
Table 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.
