Legal Pluralism and Sharia Law

Legal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary laws. Focusing on Shari'a, this book examines the legal policies and experiences of various societies with different traditions of citizenship, secularism and common law.

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Adam Possamai is Associate Professor in Sociology and is the current President of Research Committee 22 on the Sociology of Religion from the International Sociological Association.

James T. Richardson, J.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno and will be the President elect of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religions from October 2012.

Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Committee on Religion at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and concurrently the Director of the Centre on Religion and Society at the University of Western Sydney.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Legal Pluralism, State Sovereignty, and Citizenship 3. Legal Pluralism, Family Personal Laws, and the Rejection of Shari'a in Australia: A Case of Multiple or "Clashing" Modernities? 4. A Dual Legal System in Australia: The Formalization of 5. More Than One Law for All: Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia 6. The Social Construction of Legal Pluralism