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In this chapter, I draw attention to disputes in rural Morocco that underscore the fact that, in certain localities, normatively defined fault lines between the secular and the sacred can fluctuate along temporal vectors. The mise-en-scène of these events is the weekly market, which in itself constitutes an interface between economic, religious, and legal activities. Ethnographic vignettes of disputes in the market show how the assessment of human behavior in local disputes is informed by spatial and temporal parameters, and how legal and faith-based aspects converge in these parameters.
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Turner, B. (2013). Religious Subtleties in Disputing. In: von Benda-Beckmann, F., von Benda-Beckmann, K., Ramstedt, M., Turner, B. (eds) Religion in Disputes. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318343_4
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