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I dunno, it makes sense to me.
Pagans have marriage rituals outside of English law, and their own communities manage the separation too.
Jews tend to manage community finances and collective mortgages via synagogue bursaries outside of banking regulation and laws.
Many religions have methods for managing certain aspects of daily life outside of the legal framework of the country in which they are in, and those legal frameworks may not be sensitive to the religious wishes of the people involved.
The key to this isn't to sanction religious law (which is the outcry), but to say that so long as it is not in breach of the federal (English) law the religious authority can take control of the affair. But that is simply a legal assertion and willingness of the participants to grant that authority (as it would not be legal) to the religious institution to administer.
The question is what happens when the individuals involved in an incident disagree with the religious view and wants to escalate to the national law, would the religious institution attempt to prevent it (pervert the course of justice).
Anyhow, the fundamental question of whether the affairs of a person could be managed by religous law, no. But they could allow themselves to be managed by a religious framework and attempt to avoid instigating a need for the federal law. So in that respect, yes it could be done and already is being done by some communities (not I say communities and not religions, as it requires consent of the community members to allow the religious institution to have that power).