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At a time of 'interdisciplinary' scholarly debate and 'transdisciplinary'
pedagogy, some disciplines appear more siloed and tone deaf to each
other than ever before. This article will consider why law and anthropology
as disciplines offer almost no impact upon each other's educational
or research agendas.

Seeking to expand the domain of the political beyond normative understandings of the state, the articles in this special edition examine the performative aspects of governance and state-making in Southeast Asia. Combining historical and contemporary case studies, this collection brings together four examples of performative statecraft from Burma/Myanmar, Thailand, and Indonesia. The collection coheres around the analytical optic of performance, with particular emphasis on the performative repertoires developed by religious militas and non-state security groups. This analytical optic allows the contributors to gauge how such non-state groups conceive and engage with the state and its institutions, and to provide fresh insights on the performative aspects of state-making processes.

Introduction : religiosities toward the future ... in pursuit of the new millennium / Bruce Kapferer, Kari Telle, and Annelin Eriksen -- The politics of conviction : faith on the neo-liberal frontier / Jean Comaroff -- Strategic secularism : Bible advocacy in England / Matthew Engelke -- Pentecostal networks and the spirit of globalization : on the special productivity of ritual forms / Joel Robbins -- Healing the nation : in search of unity through the Holy Spirit in Vanuatu / Annelin Eriksen -- What happened to cargo cults? Material religions in Melanesia and the west / Ton Otto -- Gold for a golden age : sacred money and Islam freedom in a global Sufi order / Nils Bubandt -- Sri Lankan civil society and its fanatics / Rohan Bastin -- Dharma power : searching for security in post-new order Indonesia / Kari Telle -- An ancient case of interrogation and torture / Bruce Lincoln -- The terrorist as humanitarian / Faisal Devji -- Reflections on the rise of legal theology : law and religion in the twenty-first century / John L. Comaroff.

This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal. In doing so the authors are concerned to break away from the dictates of a western externalist rationalist understanding of these phenomena without falling into the trap of mysticism. The articles address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas