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“Going to Law”: Reflections on Law, Religion, and Mitra Sharafi's Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
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Abstract

This essay explores religion's need for law, comparing the story told in Mitra Sharafi's Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia (2014)—about the virtual hijacking of British colonial law to serve the communal religious needs of Parsis in colonial India—to other contexts in which secular and religious legal systems have built symbiotic relationships, including in the United States and Thailand. It concludes by urging a reweaving of religious and legal histories after the critique of secularism and its shadows, separationism, and antinomianism.

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Review Essay
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , Fall 2017 , pp. 1231 - 1239
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2017 

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