Family Rights and Religion

John Eekelaar FBA is Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy and Emeritus Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford University, UK.

Contents: Introduction, John Eekelaar. Part I Religion and the Social Structure: Development of family law in Western and Eastern Europe: common origins, common driving forces, common tendencies, M.V. Antokolskaia; The development of the family and marriage in Europe, Jack Goody. Part II The Family and the Transmission of Religious Identity: The parental right to control the religious education of the child, L.M. Friedman; Parental disputes, religious upbringing and welfare in English law and the ECHR, Sylvie Langlaude; Responsibility for the soul of the child: the role of the state and parents in determining religious upbringing and education, Rachel E. Taylor; The child's right to religious freedom in international law, Ursula Kilkelly; The child's right to religious freedom and formation of identity, Anat Scolnicov; No 'Rip van Winkels' here: Amish education since Wisconsin v Yoder, D.L. McConnell and C.E. Hurst. Part III Religion and the Welfare of Family Members: The child cases: how America's religious exemption laws harm children, Alan Rogers; Understanding faith: when religious parents decline conventional medical treatment, A. Lederman; Child fatalities from religion-motivated medical neglect, S.M. Asser and R. Swan; When terror strikes at home: the interface between religion and domestic violence, N. Nason-Clark. Part IV Religion and Belonging: Understanding the religion in freedom of religion, Jeremy Webber; Religion without God, Ronald Dworkin; Belief in marriage, J. Jane Mair. Part V The Secular State and Religious Groups: Civil and religious law in England: a religious perspective, Rowan Williams; The archbishop and marital pluralism: an American perspective, John Witte; Marriage pluralism in the United States, Linda C. McClain; Human rights under state enforced religious family laws in Israel, Egypt and India, Yuksel Sezgin; Personal autonomy and the option of religious law, Farrah Ahmed; A 'deviant' solution: the Israeli Agunah and the religious sanctions law, Pascale Fournier, Pascal McDougall and Merrisa Lichtsztral; The wife's right to divorce on the basis of the delegation condition under Islamic and Iranian law, A.R. Bariklou; Family law in diverse societies, Maleiha Malik. Index.