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Permutations of order : religion and law as contested sovereignties / edited by Thomas G. Kirsch, Bertram Turner.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Law, justice, and power.
- Law, justice, and power
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and law.
- Legal polycentricity.
- Customary law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bringing together case studies from around the world, this volume makes an innovative and important contribution to current discussions about the relationship between religion and law.
- 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 Sovereignty7 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, Indonesia12 Beyond the Law-Religion Divide: Law and Religion in West Sumatra; 13 Negotiating Custody Rights in Islamic Family Law; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-60006-4
- 1-317-08215-X
- 1-317-08214-1
- 1-282-09162-X
- 9786612091629
- 0-7546-8938-7
- 9781315600062
- OCLC:
- 429917740
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