ISBN:
9781409462125
,
1409462129
,
9781409462118
,
1409462110
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9781472407573
,
1472407571
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 312 pages)
Series Statement:
Contemporary thought in the Islamic world
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Turner, Bryan S . Sociology of Islam
DDC:
306.6/97
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies
;
Islam
;
Islamic civilization
;
Islamic sociology
;
Islamic sociology
;
Islam
;
Islamic civilization
;
Soziologie
;
Islam
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Islam
;
Soziologie
Description / Table of Contents:
Islam, capitalism and the Weber theses -- Origins and traditions in Islam and Christianity -- State, science and economy in traditional societies -- Conscience in the construction of religion : a critique of Marshall G.S. Hodgson's The venture of Islam -- Orientalism, Islam and capitalism -- On the concept of axial space : orientalism and the originary -- Orientalism, or the politics of the text -- Leibniz, Islam and cosmopolitan virtue -- Sovereignty and emergency : political theology, Islam and American conservatism -- Class, generation and Islamism : towards a global sociology of political Islam -- Religious authority and the new media -- Women, piety and practice: a study of women and religious practice in Malaysia -- The body and piety : the hijab and marriage -- Islam, diaspora and multiculturalism -- Shari'a and legal pluralism in the West
Description / Table of Contents:
Taking a thematic approach, Bryan S. Turner draws together his important writings in sociology and Islam which engage with the relationship of Islam and the ideas of Western social thinkers. Turner engages with the broad categories of capitalism, orientalism, modernity, gender, and citizenship among others, as he explores how Muslims adapt to the changing times and how Islam has come to be managed by those in power
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