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Polygamy’s Rights and Wrongs

Polygamy’s Rights and Wrongs

Perspectives on Harm, Family, and Law

Edited by Gillian Calder and Lori G. Beaman

Published by: UBC Press

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9780774826174
Published: December 2013

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This volume will be of interest to those studying or working in the areas of law, religious studies, sociology, and politics.

Introduction: Is Polygamy Inherently Harmful? / Lori G. Beaman

1 Plus Ça Change ... ? Bountiful’s Diverse and Durable Marriage Practices / Angela Campbell

2 How Should Public Institutions Assess Religious Identity? The Case of Polygamy / Avigail Eisenberg

3 Polygamy and the Predicament of Contemporary Criminal Law / Benjamin L. Berger

4 Are They Not Us? A Personal Reflection on Polygamy / Arta Blanche Johnson

5 Reflecting on Polygamy: What’s the Harm? / Rebecca Johnson

6 Polygamy in the Parisian Banlieues: Debate and Discourse on the 2005 French Suburban Riots / Jennifer A. Selby

7 Polygamy and Race-Thinking: A Genealogy / Margaret Denike

8 Making Them Fit: The Australian National Census and Aboriginal Family Forms / Frances Morphy

9 The Raids at Short Creek and Yearning for Zion Ranch and the Law of Unintended Consequences / Martha Bradley-Evans

Conclusion: “To the Exclusion of All Others” – Polygamy, Monogamy, and the Legal Family in Canada / Gillian Calder

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Gillian Calder is an associate professor in the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law. Lori G. Beaman is the Canada Research Chair in the Contextualization of Religion in a Diverse Canada and a professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa.

Contributors: Benjamin L. Berger, Martha Bradley-Evans, Angela Campbell, Margaret Denike, Avigail Eisenberg, Arta Blanche Johnson, Rebecca Johnson, Frances Morphy, Jennifer A. Selby