Permutations of order : religion and law as contested sovereignties /
This volume makes an important and innovative contribution to current discussions about the relationship between 'religion' and 'law' and brings together theoretically informed case studies from different parts of the world which relate to various types of politico-legal settings...
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| Language: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
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| Series: | Law, justice, and power.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
