Permutations of order
Subtitle: religion and law as contested sovereignties
By: by Bertram Turner and Thomas Kirsch.
Contributors: Kirsch, Thomas G.; Turner, Bertram.
Series: Law, justice and power
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780754672593; 9780754689386
Subjects: Religion and law; Legal polycentricity; Customary law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Law and religion in permutation of order : an introduction / Bertram Turner, Thomas Kirsch; title: Persecution for reasons of religion under the 1951 refugee convention / Anthony Good; title: Religious freedom law and the protection of sacred sites / René Kuppe; title: The Cuban republic and its wizards / Stephan Palmié; title: Judicious succession and judicial religion : internal conflict and legal dispute in a religious reform movement in India / Anindita Chakrabarti; title: Order and dissent among old colony Mennonites : a regime of embedded sovereignty / Lorenzo Cañás Bottos; title: There is no power except for God : locality, global Christianity, and immigrant transnational incorporation / Nina Glick Schiller; title: Customary, state and human rights approaches to containing witchcraft in Cameroon / Michaela Pelican; title: Constitutionally divine : legal hermeneutics in African Pentecostal Christianity / Thomas Kirsch; title: Religious message and transnational interventionism : constructing legal practice in the Moroccan Souss / Bertram Turner; title: Playing the religious card : competing for district leadership in West Sumba, Indonesia / Jacqueline Vel; title: Beyond the law-religion divide : law and religion in West Sumatra / Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann; title: Negotiating custody rights in islamic family law / Nahda Shehada.