Full Description
Family law is a site of social conflict and the erasure of non-traditional families. This book explores how conservative religious and progressive queer groups can cooperatively work together to expand family law's recognition beyond the traditional state-sponsored family. Various religious groups have shown an interest in promoting alternative family structures. For example, certain Muslim and Mormon communities have advocated for polygamy, thereby aligning with queer groups' interest in overcoming the engrafting of monogamy into state law. Advocacy by North American religious conservatives for reforms in favor of non-conjugal families and against same-sex marriage overlaps with certain queer efforts to legitimize friendships and non-traditional families more generally.
This book explores these potential areas of queer and religious political cooperation—including limitations and principled reservations to such cooperation. It then looks at additional future arenas of queer and religious political cooperation going beyond family law.
Contents
Introduction, Nausica Palazzo and Jeffrey A. Redding
PART I: MAPPING THE CONCEPTUAL TERRAIN
1. Secularism, Same-Sex Relations, and Legal Pluralism, Mariano Croce
PART II: RELIGIOUS-QUEER PERSPECTIVES
2. Custom, Preference, or Nature?: Mormon Polygamy, Same-Sex Marriage, and Natural Law Theory, Frederick Mark Gedicks
3. Cleaving Marriage: Appraising the Conservative Blowback after Same-Sex Marriage, Robin Fretwell Wilson and Rebecca Valek
4. A Multiplication of Blessings: Families and LGBTQ Rights within the Waldensian Church, Ilaria Valenzi
PART III: QUEER-RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES
5. 'Ohana as a Way of Life: Queer Friendship in the Mediterranean Regime, Beatrice Gusmano
6. The Abolition of Legal Marriage in Israel as a Potential Queer-Religious Project, Ayelet Blecher-Prigat and Noy Naaman
7. Queer and Religious Convergences around Nonconjugal Couples: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?, Nausica Palazzo
8. Queer Politics, Consensual Non-Monogamy, and Religion: Notes on the Ethics of Coalition Work, Christian Klesse
PART IV: FUTURE TRAJECTORIES
9. Achieving Equality without a Constitution: Lessons from Israel for Queer Family Law, Laura T. Kessler
10. Queer and Religious Political Alliances in the Pandemic Trump Era, Jeffrey A. Redding
Index
