Religion and Legal Pluralism

Abstract

In its counter-extremist strategy published at the beginning of October 2015, the government revealed that it would be undertaking a review of Shariah tribunals in Britain.The review was justified according to the government by evidence that the tribunals were acting in contravention of the law.The government went on to state emphatically that only one rule of law existed in the country, and that no informal religious system of law would be allowed to operate in competition with it.Not long after this publication, The Independent reported that a Jewish Beth Din tribunal in London was taking the unprecedented attempt of naming and shaming a Jewish man in a newspaper for refusing to give his wife a divorce.It is clear from these and other such incidents that legal pluralism and religious tribunals in Britain are currently a topical and pressing issue.Religion and Legal Pluralism is thus a timely and welcome academic contribution to the public debate.The book forms part of the series published by Ashgate on the current role and impact of religion in society.The series spans a wide variety of disciplines within the fields of humanities and social sciences.This particular book represents the first in the series that tackles the topic of religion and society from a legal perspective, with the issue of legal pluralism being chosen by Sandberg as the focus.

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