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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Rule of Law and Its Imbrications – Justice in the Making
- PART ONE THE PRODUCTION OF LIBERALIST TRUTH REGIMES
- PART TWO THE RELIGIOUS POLITICS OF INCOMMENSURABILITY
- 4 “Religious” and “Secular” Micropractices: The Roots of Secular Law, the Political Content of Radical Islamic Beliefs
- 5 “The Hand Will Go to Hell”: Islamic Law and the Crafting of the Spiritual Self
- 6 Islamic Sharia at the Crossroads: Human Rights Challenges and the Strategic Translation of Vernacular Imaginaries
- Epilogue: Toward a Critical Transnational Legal Pluralism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY
4 - “Religious” and “Secular” Micropractices: The Roots of Secular Law, the Political Content of Radical Islamic Beliefs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Rule of Law and Its Imbrications – Justice in the Making
- PART ONE THE PRODUCTION OF LIBERALIST TRUTH REGIMES
- PART TWO THE RELIGIOUS POLITICS OF INCOMMENSURABILITY
- 4 “Religious” and “Secular” Micropractices: The Roots of Secular Law, the Political Content of Radical Islamic Beliefs
- 5 “The Hand Will Go to Hell”: Islamic Law and the Crafting of the Spiritual Self
- 6 Islamic Sharia at the Crossroads: Human Rights Challenges and the Strategic Translation of Vernacular Imaginaries
- Epilogue: Toward a Critical Transnational Legal Pluralism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY
Summary
In the midst of the expansion of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its African-based prosecutions, Africa has witnessed rapid religious recomposition in recent decades marked by new scales of religious organization, new directional flows of influence, assertive new theologies, and intensified public presences. This chapter focuses on the ways that different forms of religious ethical value are central to both the human rights principles shaping the rule of law movement and to key revivalist Muslim commitments in other parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Here I examine a particular West African–Islamic politicolegal trajectory and situate it within the recent expansion of the rule of law. At the heart of this chapter is an inquiry into what new tensions are emerging at the intersections of “religious” and political projects. How, I ask, do current radical religious contestations within African polities – or between religious doctrines and secular legal codes – inform wider theoretical and legal debates on the ambiguous conceptual groundings of the “secular”; on rights and duties; and on the presumptive norms of liberalist citizenship central to its production of individual personhood? How does a different rendering of obligation and authority produce a politics of incommensurability that is beyond liberalist recognition?
THE ICC: A MOVEMENT IN THE MAKING
In liberalist circles until the mid-twentieth century, the international notion of “rights” was predominately associated with domestic issues and rested on the nation-state as the grantor and protector of rights.
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- Fictions of JusticeThe International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 151 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009