TEXT PREPARATION 5
Assignment due in class on November 23* from some students *Since part of the value of the text summary assignment is that it will prepare you to be an active participant in class, it may only be submitted in class on the day it is due. If you have to miss that day's class, please contact the instructor to make alternate arrangements. Please read:
1. According to Janice Gross Stein, why or how are women's rights especially affected in decisions about the rights that are due to religious groups? (Feel free to also comment on the bearing of Bakht's article on this question.) 2. What does Anver Emon see as the potential for "accommodation of Islamic law within national rule of law frameworks," and how does his view relate to the positions argued for by Rowan Williams? (You might also comment on how the positions of Emon and/or Williams are rooted in their characterizations of what shariah/Islamic law is.) 3. According to Suzanne Last Stone and/or persons interviewed for the radio program "The Current" (March 30, 2008, including the radio documentary "Faith in the Law") (please give the names of anyone you cite), why or how does the issue of Jewish religious divorce (the get) pose a challenge for the separation of religion and secular law?
As in your Text Summaries, please follow the guidelines in: Gordon Harvey, Writing with Sources, pp. 1-3, 6,
10-19, 22-23, 50-51 [purchase book / selection in Coursepack 1 / book
on reserve] For parenthetical references to Williams, please use "Williams, para." plus the paragraph number. For parenthetical references to the other texts, please use author name + page number. |
**Please print your assignment double-spaced and with one-inch margins, using a 10-12-point font. Please number and staple the pages you hand in.
Please keep a copy of your summary to refer to in our class discussions.
posted November 11, 2011