Introduction: Situating the Sharia Debate in Ontario

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Situating the Sharia Debate
5. Foreword: Sharia and the Future of Western Secularism 5
6. Introduction: Situating the Sharia Debate in Ontario 12
7. Part One: Practising Religious Divorce among North American Muslims
8. 1. Practising an ‘Islamic Imagination’: Islamic Divorce in North America 35
9. 2. Faith-Based Arbitration or Religious Divorce: What Was the Issue? 66
10. Part Two: Regulating Faith-Based Arbitration
11. 3. Multiculturalism Meets Privatization: The Case of Faith-Based Arbitration 91
12. 4. ‘Sharia’ Courts in Canada: A Delayed Opportunity for the Indigenization of Islamic Legal Rulings 123
13. 5. Asking Questions about Sharia: Lessons from Ontario 153
14. 6. Islamic Law and the Canadian Mosaic: Politics, Jurisprudence, and Multicultural Accommodation 192
15. Part Four: Negotiating the Politics of Sharia-Based Arbitration
16. 7. The ‘Good’ Muslim, ‘Bad’ Muslim Puzzle? The Assertion of Muslim Women’s Islamic Identity in the Sharia Debates in Canada 231
17. 8. ‘The Muslims Have Ruined Our Party’: A Case Study of Ontario Media Portrayals of Supporters of Faith-Based Arbitration 257
18. Part Five: Analysing Discourses of Race, Gender, and Religion
19. 9. Sharia in Canada? Mapping Discourses of Race, Gender, and Religious Difference 279
20. 10. Agency and Representations: Voices and Silences in the Ontario Sharia Debate 307
21. Part Six: Managing Religion in the Canadian State
22. 11. Managing the Mosaic: The Work of Form in ‘Dispute Resolution in Family Law: Protecting Choice, Promoting Inclusion 329
23. 12. Construing the Secular: Implications of the Ontario Sharia Debate 351
24. Concluding Thoughts
25. Conclusion: Debating Sharia in the West 377
26. Contributors 395