Life at the Margins

Religious Minorities, Status, and the State

Bibliographic Data

ID5833657
AuthorsMona Oraby (0009-0006-8351-4454, Princeton University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume38
Issue3
Pages1-16
Publication date2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Law and Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0748-0814 • E-ISSN: 2163-3088
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/jlr.2023.34
OpenAlexW4389682435
LanguageEN
References cited38

This essay examines the claims-making practices of conservative evangelical Protestants in England and Satmar Hasidim in the United States, communities marginal to two contingents of leftist academic discourse today: scholars who see liberation as an anti-statist project and others who imagine religious diversity as a common good facilitated by the state. The author suggests that one way forward in the critical study of law and religion is to examine communities with political commitments that differ from our own-who shape their worlds alongside and through the state yet are unconcerned about a common democratic future. By showing that no liberal (statist) or liberatory (anti-statist) framework holds either the Satmar or evangelical Christian legal claims, the author identifies generative problems for thought that challenge current approaches to understanding religion-state entanglement in the contemporary world

Left-wing politics · Liberal democracy · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Freedom and Discrimination

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