F. von Benda-Beckmann & Kenneth A. Loparo 
Religion in Disputes 
Pervasiveness of Religious Normativity in Disputing Processes

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.

Table of Content

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

About the author

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