Permutations of Order

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Contents: Law and religion in permutation of order: an introduction, Bertram Turner and Thomas G. Kirsch Part I De Jure: Religion: Persecution for reasons of religion under the 1951 Refugee Convention, Anthony Good Religious freedom law and the protection of sacred sites, RenA(c) Kuppe The Cuban Republic and its wizards, Stephan PalmiA(c). Part II Contested Orders: States and Religious Movements: 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 CaA+-A!s Bottos There is no power except for God: locality, global Christianity, and immigrant transnational incorporation, Nina Glick Schiller. Part III Permutations on the Transnational Scale: 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. Part IV Registers of Argumentation and the Negotiation of Order: 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 Index.