Permutations of Order Religion and Law as Contested Sovereignties
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Biographical note
Dr Thomas G. Kirsch is Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Between 1993 and 2001, he conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Zambia. He has published two books on African Christianity (one of them entitled Spirits and Letters: Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity; Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books; 2008). Since 2003, he has also conducted ethnographic fieldwork on issues of human safety, security and crime prevention in South Africa. Dr Bertram Turner is senior researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. He was assistant professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology and African Studies in Munich between 1993 and 2001, where he taught anthropology with a special focus on religion and legal anthropology. He has held university teaching positions in Munich and Leipzig. He has been conducting fieldwork in Morocco since 1996 with a specific focus on the management of natural resources, Islamic activism and conflict settlement in a plural legal setting.'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