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Author:   Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University, New Jersey) ,  Hanoch Dagan (Tel-Aviv University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781107153714

ISBN 10:   1107153719
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   23 March 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Institutionalizing rights and religion: introduction Leora Batnitzky and Hanoch Dagan; Part I. Secular Institutions and the Limits of Religious Recognition: 1. Religion in the law: the disaggregation approach Cécile Laborde; 2. The puzzle of the Catholic church Lawrence G. Sager; 3. Religious accommodations and - and among - civil rights: separation, toleration and accommodation Richard W. Garnett; 4. Israeli law and Jewish law in Israel: a zero sum game? Yedidia Z. Stern; 5. Why 'live-and-let-live' is not a viable solution to the difficult problems of religious accommodation in the age of sexual civil rights Mary Anne Case; 6. Control by accommodation: religious jurisdiction among the Palestinian-Arab minority in Israel Michael Karayanni; 7. Decentralizing religious and secular accommodations Roderick M. Hills, Jr; 8. In search of the secular Yishai Blank; Part II. The Challenges of Religious Institutions for the Secular State: 9. The 'how many?' question: an institutionalist's guide to pluralism Ori Aronson; 10. Equality in religious schools: the JFS case reconsidered Haim Shapira; 11. Religious freedom as a technology of modern secular governance Peter G. Danchin; 12. Civil regulations of religious marriage from the perspectives of pluralism, human rights and political compromise Shahar Lifshitz; 13. The impact of Supreme Court rulings on the Halakhic status of the official rabbinical courts in Israel Amihai Radzyner; 14. Is conversion a human right?: a comparative look at religious Zionism and Hindu nationalism Leora Batnitzky.

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Leora Batnitzky is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Princeton University, New Jersey. Her publications include Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (2006) and How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought (2011). She has been a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Tokyo, and New York University Law School. Hanoch Dagan is the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation and former dean of the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. Dagan has written over seventy articles in major law reviews and journals as well as five books including Reconstructing American Legal Realism and Rethinking Private Law Theory (2013) and The Choice Theory of Contracts (with Michael Heller, Cambridge, 2017).

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