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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
How is religion, particularly non-Christianness, conceptualised and represented in English law? What is the relationship between religion, race, ethnicity and culture in these conceptualisations? What might be the socio-political effects of conceptualising religion in particular ways? This book addresses these key questions in two areas of law relating to children.
The first case study focuses on child welfare cases and reveals how the boundaries between race and theological notions of religion as belief and practice are blurred. Non-Christians are also often perceived as uncivilized but also, at times, racial otherness can be erased and assimilated. The second examines religion in education and the increasing focus on 'common values'. It demonstrates how non-Christian faith schools are deemed as in need of regulation, while Christian schools are the benchmark of good citizenship. In addition, values discourse and citizenship education provide a means to 'de-racialise' non-Christian children in the ongoing construction of the nation.
Central to this analysis is a focus on religion as a socio-political, contingent, fluid and invented concept.
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Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK
Suhraiya Jivraj
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Suhraiya Jivraj is a Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Religion of Law
Book Subtitle: Race, Citizenship and Children's Belonging
Authors: Suhraiya Jivraj
Series Title: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137029287
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-02927-0Published: 10 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57431-2Published: 27 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-02928-7Published: 10 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2947-9274
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9282
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 195