Religious Freedom, Legal Activism, and Muslim Personal Law in Contemporary India: A Sociological Exploration of Secularism

This chapter focuses on the recent judicial activism in reforming Muslim Personal Law (mpl) in India questioning the relationship between religious freedom, citizenship rights, and secularism. India follows a regime of religion-specific personal law in matters of marriage, divorce, maintenance, adop...

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Main Author: Chakrabarti, Anindita (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Annual review of the sociology of religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Pages: 35-58
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