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    Religion and state in marriage, cohabitation and civil partnership

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    Authors
    Weller, Paul cc
    Affiliation
    University of Derby
    Issue Date
    2015
    
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    I explore several case studies on the relationship between the state, marriage, cohabitation and civil partnership as points of intersection between religious tradition, personal belief and commitment, familial and social belonging, the conditions of modernity, and the structures and laws of modern bureaucratic states. The first example highlights the plurality of legal traditions that can exist within single polities by referencing the historic example of Greta Green in Scotland where, historically, young people under marriageable age in English law eloped and married under Scots law. The second is the controversy generated in the UK in 2007 when the then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, explored whether some personal law aspects of the Muslim Shariah might be recognized within English law. Next I outline some of the principal meanings attributed to marriage particularly by Christianity in Europe, and where Christian views are generally contractual, companionate or sacramental. In most societies informed by Christianity, the principal form has been monogamy between a man and a woman. There is sharp debate and controversy around emergent forms for the public recognition of relationships between individuals of homosexual and lesbian sexual orientation. What are often popularly called gay marriages highlight the more general problematics involved in questions how marriage, cohabitation and civil partnership are handled in relation to religion, tradition and modernity. Most social, legal and state systems include elements of more than one model and it is unlikely that any one model will be suitable in all circumstances. At issue are how far the state can and/or should impose unitary legal and social policy frameworks and what exceptions and plural approaches can be accepted and implemented? I argue for the development of an appropriate religious literacy among policy makers and civil servants who deal with the above issues. This is not on the basis that social policy and legal developments should necessarily endorse religious perspectives, but because democratic societies need to be capable of connecting with the perspectives and realities of those who organize their personal and social lives according to such perspectives.
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    Weller, PG. 2015, Religion and state in marriage, cohabitation and civil partnership: Examples, typologies and contestations from the United Kingdom. in S Brunn (ed.), The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics.vol. 5, Springer Verlag, pp. 3303-3319, The State and Religious Marriage, Sherbrooke, Canada, 12-13 February. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9376-6_173
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    Springer Verlag
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622601
    DOI
    10.1007/978-94-017-9376-6_173
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    Chapter
    ISBN
    9789401793759
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1007/978-94-017-9376-6_173
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