Full 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.
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, René Kuppe; Chapter 4 The Cuban Republic and its Wizards, Stephan Palmié; Part II Contested Orders; Chapter 5 Judicious Succession and Judicial Religion, Anindita Chakrabarti; Chapter 6 Order and Dissent Among Old Colony Mennonites, Lorenzo Cañás 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;
