Permutations of Order : Religion and Law as Contested Sovereignties.
Title:
Permutations of Order : Religion and Law as Contested Sovereignties.
Author:
Kirsch, Thomas G.
ISBN:
9780754689386
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Series:
Law, Justice and Power
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Maps and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Law and Religion in Permutation of Order: An Introduction -- Part I De Jure: Religion -- 2 Persecution for Reasons of Religion under the 1951 Refugee Convention -- 3 Religious Freedom Law and the Protection of Sacred Sites -- 4 The Cuban Republic and its Wizards -- Part II Contested Orders: States and Religious Movements -- 5 Judicious Succession and Judicial Religion: Internal Conflict and Legal Dispute in a Religious Reform Movement in India -- 6 Order and Dissent Among Old Colony Mennonites: A Regime of Embedded Sovereignty -- 7 There is no Power Except for God: Locality, Global Christianity and Immigrant Transnational Incorporation -- Part III Permutations on the Transnational Scale -- 8 Customary, State and Human Rights Approaches to Containing Witchcraft in Cameroon -- 9 Constitutionally Divine: Legal Hermeneutics in African Pentecostal Christianity -- 10 Religious Message and Transnational Interventionism: Constructing Legal Practice in the Moroccan Souss -- Part IV Registers of Argumentation and the Negotiation of Order -- 11 Playing the Religious Card: Competing for District Leadership in West Sumba, Indonesia -- 12 Beyond the Law-Religion Divide: Law and Religion in West Sumatra -- 13 Negotiating Custody Rights in Islamic Family Law -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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