Format:
x, 240 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780190280567
Content:
Sociologically speaking, Islam is what Muslims do. From this premise, the book elaborates a sociology of Islam in three major chapters. They show Islam has operated as a cluster of practical orientations ("lifeworlds") that established it as a presence in three fields of social life: global networks, public philosophies, and participatory ethics. The book argues that all three are poorly understood in recent literature, which tends to focus on one specific problem or another, and then in isolation from global and historical contexts. The book argues that the larger preoccupations of ordinary Muslims...how to imagine a global society; how to guide life in the manner of a total philosophy; and how to relate to the world of daily struggles in forums and social movements...are neither unique to the present period nor to religious life. But the career of a particular religion offers a focused empirical lens through which we may offer meaningful propositions about the more general form of these concerns
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF Bamyeh, Mohammed A., author Lifeworlds of Islam New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019 ISBN 978-0-19-028057-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
,
Theology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Islam
;
Soziologie
;
Muslim
;
Lebenswelt
;
Religionsausübung
Author information:
Bamyeh, Mohammed A. 1958-
