Permutations of order : religion and law as contested sovereignties

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    • Kirsch, Thomas G.
    • Turner, Bertram

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Permutations of order : religion and law as contested sovereignties

edited by Thomas G. Kirsch, Bertram Turner

(Law, justice and power)

Ashgate, c2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Law and religion in permutation of order : an introduction / Bertram Turner and Thomas G. Kirsch
  • Persecution for reasons of religion under the 1951 refugee convention / Anthony Good
  • Religious freedom law and the protection of sacred sites / René Kuppe
  • The Cuban republic and its wizards / Stephan Palmié
  • Judicious succession and judicial religion : internal conflict and legal dispute in a religious reform movement in India / Anindita Chakrabarti
  • Order and dissent among old colony Mennonites : a regime of embedded sovereignty / Lorenzo Cañás Bottos
  • There is no power except for God : locality, global Christianity and immigrant transnational incorporation / Nina Glick Schiller
  • Customary, state and human rights approaches to containing witchcraft in Cameroon / Michaela Pelican
  • Constitutionally divine : legal hermeneutics in African Pentecostal Christianity / Thomas G. Kirsch
  • Religious message and transnational interventionism : constructing legal practice in the Moroccan Souss / Bertram Turner
  • Playing the religious card : competing for district leadership in West Sumba, Indonesia / Jacqueline Vel
  • Beyond the law-religion divide : law and religion in West Sumatra / Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
  • Negotiating custody rights in Islamic family law / Nahda Shehada

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Description

Permutations of Order makes an innovative and important contribution to current discussions about the relationship between religion and law, bringing together theoretically informed case studies from different parts of the world, relating to various types of politico-legal settings and religions. This volume also deals with contemporary legal/religious transfigurations that involve "permutations," meaning that elements of "legal" and "religious" acts of ordering are at times repositioned within each realm and from one realm to the other. These permutations of order in part result from the fact that, in ethnographic settings like those examined here, "legal" and "religious" realms are relational to-and in certain cases even constitutive of-each other and they result in categoric transpositions and new social positionalities through which, among other things, "the legal" and "the religious" are blended. Permutations of Order is a work that transcends convention, identifies new and theoretically overarching themes and will be of strong interest to researchers and policy-makers seeking a comparative focus on the intersections and disjunctions of religion and law.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Law and Religion in Permutation of Order, Bertram Turner, Thomas G. Kirsch
  • Part I De Jure
  • Chapter 2 Persecution for Reasons of Religion under the 1951 Refugee Convention, Anthony Good
  • Chapter 3 Religious Freedom Law and the Protection of Sacred Sites, Rene Kuppe
  • Chapter 4 The Cuban Republic and its Wizards, Stephan Palmie
  • Part II Contested Orders
  • Chapter 5 Judicious Succession and Judicial Religion, Anindita Chakrabarti
  • Chapter 6 Order and Dissent Among Old Colony Mennonites, Lorenzo Canas Bottos
  • Chapter 7 There is no Power Except for God, Nina Glick Schiller
  • Part III Permutations on the Transnational Scale
  • Chapter 8 Customary, State and Human Rights Approaches to Containing Witchcraft in Cameroon, Michaela Pelican
  • Chapter 9 Constitutionally Divine, Thomas G. Kirsch
  • Chapter 10 Religious Message and Transnational Interventionism, Bertram Turner
  • Part IV Registers of Argumentation and the Negotiation of Order
  • Chapter 11 Playing the Religious Card, Jacqueline Vel
  • Chapter 12 Beyond the Law-Religion Divide, Franz Keebet, von Benda-Beckmann
  • Chapter 13 Negotiating Custody Rights in Islamic Family Law, Nahda Shehada

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