Religion in Disputes

Pervasiveness of Religious Normativity in Disputing Processes
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-45824-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3649 g

How are time-honored tenets of faith, different ritual sensibilities, and newly emerging eschatological imaginaries articulated with other normative registers and moral susceptibilities in disputes? This book examines such questions through cases in Europe, the United States, Israel, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benda-Beckmann, F. Von

Turner, B.

Loparo, Kenneth A.

Ramstedt, M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: On the Pervasiveness of Religious Normativity in Disputing Processes; Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Martin Ramstedt and Bertram Turner 1. Interminable Disputes in Northwest Madagascar; Michael Lambek 2. Dispelling the Shadows of Dispute in Native American Church Healing; Thomas J. Csordas 3. Religion, Crisis Pregnancies, and the Battle over Abortion: Redefining Conflict and Consensus in the American Pro-Life Movement; Ziad Munson 4. Religious Subtleties in Disputing: Spatiotemporal Inscriptions of Faith in the Nomosphere in Rural Morocco; Bertram Turner 5. "God Moves Big Time in Sophiatown": Community Policing and "the Fight against Evil" in a Poor Johannesburg Neighborhood; Julia Hornberger 6. Toward Reconciliation: Religiously Oriented Disputing Processes in Mozambique; Carolien Jacobs 7. Religion and Disputes in Bali's New Village Jurisdictions; Martin Ramstedt 8. Sanctity and Shariah: Two Islamic Modes of Resolving Disputes in Today's England; John R. Bowen 9. Forum Shopping between Civil and Shari'a Courts: Maintenance Suits in Contemporary Jerusalem; Ido Shahar 10. Legal Pluralism in the Supreme Court: Law, Religion, and Culture Pertaining to Women's Rights in Nepal; Rajendra Pradhan 11. Natural Law, Religion, and the Jurisprudence of the US Supreme Court; Lawrence Rosen 12: Divine Law and Ecclesiastical Hierarchy; Matthias Kaufmann 13. "Law Has Gone Away": Religion, Modernity, and Injury in Thailand; David M. Engel 14. Law and Religion in Historic Tibet; Fernanda Pirie

Über Autor(innen)

John R. Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Thomas J. Csordas, University of California, San Diego, USA
David Engel, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Julia Hornberger, University of Zurich, Switzerland and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Carolien Jacobs, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Matthias Kaufmann, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Michael Lambek, University Toronto Scarborough, Canada
Ziad Munson, Lehigh University, USA
Fernanda Pirie, University of Oxford, UK
Rajendra Pradhan, Nep? School of Social Science and Humanities, Nepal
Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University, USA and Columbia Law School, USA
Ido Shahar, University of Haifa, Israel