Special Issue “Sacred Order: The Function of Ritual in the Emergence of Norms”, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 13 (2024), 149–281.
Contributions by
- Oliver T I Wright, University of Oxford, “Prosper’s Law: putting the lex back into orandi and credendi” (open access)
- Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa, Queen Mary, University of London, “The Magico-Juridical Hypothesis” (open access)
- Ryszard Bobrowicz, KU Leuven, “The Contemporary Landscape of Narrations and Jurisprudence: The Legal Imagination and Nomos and Narrative half a century later”
- Judith Hahn, University of Bonn, “Sacraments of the Law: Discovering Common Ground of Law and Religion” (open access)
- Valentin Jeutner, Lund University, “The Function of Legal Ritual in the Peace Palace” (open access)
- Stephan Winter, University of Tübingen, “Liturgical Order, Cultura Dei and the Normative Function of Ritual Power: Considerations on the Effective Forces of the Cultura Dei in the Coronation of King Charles III”
- Judith Gruber, KU Leuven, “The Theo-Politics of Ritual: Defining and Contesting the Sacred Order of the Church”
The special issue contains contributions from the conference “Sacred Order: The Reliance of Ritual on Norms, the Emergence of Norms from Ritual”, which took place at the University of Bonn 4–6 July 2023. Many thanks to the contributors of the conference and authors of this journal! Special thanks go to the editorial board of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, and in particular to managing editor Peter Petkoff, for enabling us to dedicate this special issue to the interrelationship of rituality and normativity.