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Film, Video Sharia in the West? What Place for Faith-Based Family Laws in Western Democracies?

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Title

  • Sharia in the West? What Place for Faith-Based Family Laws in Western Democracies?

Summary

  • Legal scholar John Witte Jr. discusses how Western legal systems grapple with non-state-based, family-law systems such as Sharia, Halacha and Canon Law. Witte predicts that the Western-legal-system handling of Sharia will become hotly politicized in America in the next few years, as has happened recently in Canada and the United Kingdom. He believes scholarship can aid in widening the conversation surrounding a potentially inflammatory topic.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2012-11-01.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  Religion

Notes

  • -  Classification: Auxiliary Sciences of History.
  • -  Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Law.
  • -  Classification: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion.
  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  John Witte Jr..
  • -  Recorded on 2012-11-01.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688981

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Sharia in the West? What Place for Faith-Based Family Laws in Western Democracies?. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-01, 2012. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688981/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2012) Sharia in the West? What Place for Faith-Based Family Laws in Western Democracies?. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-01. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688981/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Sharia in the West? What Place for Faith-Based Family Laws in Western Democracies?. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-01, 2012. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688981/>.