ISBN:
9781317015314
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (325 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
Contemporary Thought in the Islamic World
Series Statement:
Contemporary Thought in the Islamic World Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Turner, Bryan S The Sociology of Islam : Collected Essays of Bryan S. Turner
DDC:
306.6/97
Keywords:
Islam
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Islamic civilization
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Islamic sociology
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction Bryan S. Turner: Building the Sociology of Islam -- Introduction to Section I Classical Approaches - Understanding Islam -- 1 Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses -- 2 Origins and Traditions in Islam and Christianity -- 3 State, Science and Economy in Traditional Societies: Some Problems in Weberian Sociology of Science -- 4 Conscience in the Construction of Religion: A Critique of Marshall G.S. Hodgson's The Venture of Islam -- Introduction to Section II Orientalist Debate - Positioning Islam -- 5 Orientalism, Islam and Capitalism -- 6 On the Concept of Axial Space: Orientalism and the Originary -- 7 Orientalism, or the Politics of the Text -- 8 Leibniz, Islam and Cosmopolitan Virtue -- Introduction to Section III Islam Today - Sociological Perspectives -- 9 Sovereignty and Emergency: Political Theology, Islam and American Conservatism -- 10 Class, Generation and Islamism: Towards a Global Sociology of Political Islam -- 11 Religious Authority and the New Media -- 12 Women, Piety and Practice: A Study of Women and Religious Practice in Malaysia -- 13 The Body and Piety: The Hijab and Marriage -- 14 Islam, Diaspora, and Multiculturalism -- 15 Shari'a and Legal Pluralism in the West -- Appendix Further Readings by Bryan S. Turner on the Sociology of Religion/Islam -- Index.
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