Format:
Online-Ressource (241 p)
ISBN:
9780415108621
Content:
This book represents a remarkable synthesis of recent discussion and debate regarding crucial aspects of postmodernization, religious change and the globalization of world society
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Orientalism, postmodernism and religion; Orientalism and the problem of civil society in Islam; Accounting for the Orient; Conscience in the construction of religion; Gustave von Grunebaum and the mimesis of Islam; Politics and culture in Islamic globalism; From orientalism to global sociology; The concept of 'the world' in sociology; Nostalgia, postmodernism and the critique of mass culture; Two faces of sociology: global or national?; Ideology and utopia in the formation of an intelligentsia; From regulation to risk
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The self and reflexive modernityConclusion; References; Index
Additional Edition:
9780203427255
Additional Edition:
Print version Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism
Language:
English
Keywords:
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