A Multicultural Entrapment

Religion and State Among the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel

Michael Karayanni

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781108485463
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108621243
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Religion-and-State Conflict in Israel: The Absent but Present Palestinian-Arab Religious Minorities
• 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 Individual Predicament
• 5 The Individual Predicament As Multicultural Entrapment
• 6 The Voice of No Exit: On Reforming Family Religious Law Among the Palestinian-Arabs
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index