A Multicultural Entrapment
Religion and State Among the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel

A critical legal study of religion and state relations in Israel focusing on the religiously entrapped Palestinian-Arab individuals.

Michael Karayanni (Author)

9781108485463, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 December 2020

200 pages
15 x 23 x 2.5 cm, 0.65 kg

'The book is very important, rich, and instructive. It offers a new perspective for those interested in learning about religion and state in Israel or about often disregarded issues related to the Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel.' Nohad 'Ali, Israel Studies Review

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.

1. Religion-and-state Conflict in Israel: The Separate and Different
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 Multicultural Predicament
5. The Individual Predicament as Multicultural Entrapment
6. The Voice of No Exit
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Local government law [LNDU], Government powers [LNDH], Legal profession: general [LAT], Legal skills & practice [LAS], Comparative politics [JPB], Politics & government [JP]