{"product_id":"9781509986132","title":"Religion, Culture, and Human Rights in India With God as our Witness","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHart Studies in Constitutional Theory\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eReligion, Culture, and Human Rights in India\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWith God as our Witness\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSurabhi Shukla | Charles Barzun | Maartje De Visser | Matthias Klatt\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaw \/ Constitutional\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book provides a novel judicial framework for receiving and considering religious and cultural claims in shaping human rights in constitutional secular democracies.  It does this through an extended case study of the Indian constitutional jurisprudence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbortion and surrogacy, LGBTQ + rights, sex work and euthanasia are arguably the most controversial human rights issues of our time. They all invite passionate religious and cultural debate but are not themselves religious or cultural rights issues. Instead, they pose a fundamental constitutional question: How far can religion and culture go in shaping \u003ci\u003egeneral\u003c\/i\u003e human rights in secular constitutional democracies?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving beyond the logic of individual rights, this book provides an integrated and holistic approach to answering this classic question of constitutional law. To do this, it proposes an innovative empirically backed normative-theoretical framework which synthesises insights from cultural psychoanalysis, feminist legal scholarship, socio-legal method, constitutional law, evidence law, and political theory.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt looks at a unique constellation of cases belonging to eight different human rights themes covering the period since India's independence in 1947 and systematically analyses the religious and cultural claims made in those cases. It finds that in India, a more holistic approach to answering our classic constitutional puzzle requires a simultaneous consideration of three different theories:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA theory of constitutional interpretation which formulates restrictions on a judge considering religious and cultural claims in fundamental rights cases;\u003cbr\u003eA theory of judicial notice which determines when such claims can be admitted without proof;\u003cbr\u003eA theory of secularism and public reason which argues that the claims must be given weight in the final decision only if they match defensible conceptions of constitutional values.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book develops these theories and applies them to the Indian cases, providing an innovative approach to an age-old question.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSurabhi Shukla \u003c\/b\u003eis Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield, UK.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15 April 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHart Publishing\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781509986132\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e288\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51944999551116,"sku":"9781509986132","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781509986132","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}