ISBN:
1403979243
,
1403968659
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 249 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Culture and Religion in International Relations Ser
Series Statement:
Culture and religion in international relations
Parallel Title:
Print version Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies : Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies
DDC:
306.6/97
Keywords:
Islam and civil society
;
Islam and state
;
Islam and civil society
;
Islam and state
;
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Abstract:
This collection of essays examines how modern public spheres reflect and mask - often both simultaneously - discourses of order, contests for hegemony, and techniques of power in the Muslim world. It builds on scholarship that re-imagines theories and practices of the public in modern and contemporary societies. While examining disparate time periods and locations, each contributor views modern and contemporary public spheres as crucial to the functioning, and understanding, of political and societal power in Muslim majority countries.
Abstract:
This collection of essays examines how modern public spheres reflect and mask - often both simultaneously - discourses of order, contests for hegemony, and techniques of power in the Muslim world. It builds on scholarship that re-imagines theories and practices of the public in modern and contemporary societies. While examining disparate time periods and locations, each contributor views modern and contemporary public spheres as crucial to the functioning, and understanding, of political and societal power in Muslim majority countries
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies; Part I Contested Hegemonies in the Public Sphere; 1 Socio-Religious Movements and the Transformation of ""Common Sense"" into a Politics of ""Common Good""; 2 Power, Religion, and the Effects of Publicness in 20th-Century Shiraz; 3 ""Doing Good, Like Sayyida Zaynab"": Lebanese Shi'i Women's Participation in the Public Sphere; 4 ""Building the World"" in a Global Age; Part II Practice, Communication, and the Public Construction of Legal Argument
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Constructing the Private/Public Distinction in Muslim Majority Societies: A Praxiological Approach6 Communicative Action and the Social Construction of Shari'a in Pakistan; 7 Is There an Arab Public Sphere? The Palestinian Intifada, a Saudi Fatwa and the Egyptian Press; 8 Cover Stories: A Genealogy of the Legal Public Sphere in Yemen; Conclusion: Public Spheres Transnationalized: Comparisons Within and Beyond Muslim Majority Societies; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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