Permutations of Order: Religion and Law as Contested Sovereignties

by Thomas G. Kirsch, Bertram Turner (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317082149
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/13/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	638 KB

About the Author

Thomas G. Kirsch, Bertram Turner

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, 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;

Editorial Reviews

'This book is an important contribution to a new generation of interdisciplinary law and religion scholarship. The authors of these very diverse essays aim to burst the constraints of legal doctrine’s narrow analytic categories and view both law and religion as ever-changing and sharply contested realms of metaphor, meaning, and practice. The richly contextualized studies featured in this volume reveal the many ways in which law and religion have come to interact during an age of rapid global reproduction, diffusion, and change.' David M. Engel, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA 'A rewarding collection of anthropological essays that illuminates the complex struggles taking place over the drawing of the boundaries between the religious and the secular all over the world and the protean role which law plays both as authority and as field of contestation. Anybody interested in understanding the shifting terrains of our emerging post-secular global (dis-)order should read this book.' José Casanova, Georgetown University, USA '...Permutations of Order is a valuable book for scholars working in the sociology or anthropology of religion, especially those interested in surveying the extremely broad range of questions arising at the intersection of law and religion.' Journal of Contemporary Religion 'Highly recommended for anyone interested in understanding the dynamics and the transformations in the religious and legal realms of the contemporary world.' Religion and Society: Advances in Research

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