Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2019
Publication Information
2019 University of Illinois Law Review Online 59
Abstract
The uniformity question and the trust question are two of the difficult questions most perennially at the intersection of law, religion, and family; and many of the essays in The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law, edited by Robin Fretwell Wilson, engage them in some way. Wilson has brought together law and religion scholars and practitioners from a variety of academic disciplines, philosophical and religious perspectives to, essentially, debate some of these most fiercely contested and stubbornly unresolved issues. While there is a variation in style and tone of these essays, for the most part, there seems to be a common commitment by authors to accurately report the complexity of facts in these situations, and most try to give respect to contrary arguments and conclusions—a welcome difference from many articles on these issues that rehearse the same old arguments, pro and con. Many of the essays also provide fresh theoretical insights or relatively unknown empirical evidence in support of their claims.
Repository Citation
Failinger, Marie, "The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law (ed., Robin Fretwell Wilson, Cambridge Univ. Press 2018)" (2019). Faculty Scholarship. 617.
https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/facsch/617