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Permutations of order : Religion and law as contested sovereignties

Bibliographic Details
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate c2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Law and religion in permutation of order : an introduction / Bertram Turner and Thomas G. Kirsch
  • Persecution for reasons of religion under the 1951 refugee convention / Anthony Good
  • Religious freedom law and the protection of sacred sites / René Kuppe
  • The Cuban republic and its wizards / Stephan Palmié
  • Judicious succession and judicial religion : internal conflict and legal dispute in a religious reform movement in India / Anindita Chakrabarti
  • Order and dissent among old colony Mennonites : a regime of embedded sovereignty / Lorenzo Cañás Bottos
  • There is no power except for God : locality, global Christianity, and immigrant transnational incorporation / Nina Glick Schiller
  • Customary, state and human rights approaches to containing witchcraft in Cameroon / Michaela Pelican
  • Constitutionally divine : legal hermeneutics in African Pentecostal Christianity / Thomas G. Kirsch
  • Religious message and transnational interventionism : constructing legal practice in the Moroccan Souss / Bertram Turner
  • Playing the religious card : competing for district leadership in West Sumba, Indonesia / Jacqueline Vel
  • Beyond the law-religion divide : law and religion in West Sumatra / Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
  • Negotiating custody rights in islamic family law / Nahda Shehada.