John R. Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Thomas J. Csordas, University of California, San Diego, USADavid Engel, State University of New York at Buffalo, USAJulia Hornberger, University of Zurich, Switzerland and University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaCarolien Jacobs, Wageningen University, Netherlands Matthias Kaufmann, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, GermanyMichael Lambek, University Toronto Scarborough, CanadaZiad Munson, Lehigh University, USAFernanda Pirie, University of Oxford, UKRajendra Pradhan, Nep? School of Social Science and Humanities, NepalLawrence Rosen, Princeton University, USA and Columbia Law School, USAIdo Shahar, University of Haifa, Israel

To come.

• 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