A Multicultural Entrapment: Religion and State Among the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel

The religion and state debate in Israel has overlooked the Palestinian-Arab religious communities and their members, focusing almost exclusively on Jewish religious institutions and norms and Jewish majority members. Michael Karayanni advances a legal matrix that explains this anomaly by referencing specific constitutional values, but he also suggests that what might be seen as liberal and multicultural is at its core just as illiberal and coercive. A Multicultural Entrapment suggests a set of multicultural qualifications by which one should judge whether a group-based accommodation is of a multicultural nature.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 342 pages
Publication date: 07 July 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The religion and state debate in Israel has overlooked the Palestinian-Arab religious communities and their members, focusing almost exclusively on Jewish religious institutions and norms and Jewish majority members. This is an anomaly, as religion and state debates in many other countries are defined largely by minority religions' issues. To address this anomaly, Michael Karayanni advances a legal matrix that references specific constitutional values. However, he also takes a critical look at these values and presents the argument that what might be seen as liberal and multicultural is at its core just as illiberal and coercive. In making this argument, Karayanni suggests a set of multicultural qualifications by which one should judge whether a group-based accommodation is of a multicultural nature.

The religion and state debate in Israel has overlooked the Palestinian-Arab religious communities and their members, focusing almost exclusively on Jewish religious institutions and norms and Jewish majority members.

The religion and state debate in Israel has overlooked the Palestinian-Arab religious communities and their members, focusing almost exclusively on Jewish religious institutions and norms and Jewish majority members.

Weight: 506g
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781108707176