Umfang:
XIV, 388 Seiten
ISBN:
1845530608
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1845530616
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9781845530600
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9781845530617
Serie:
Critical categories in the study of religion
Inhalt:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Sources -- Introduction -- PART I: THEOLOGY -- 1. The Epistle of Abu Hanifa to 'Uthman al-Batti -- 2. Ten Things That Nullify One's Islam -- 3. The Formation of Muslim Society and its Characteristics -- 4. The Spread of Islam -- PART II: SOCIAL SCIENCES -- 5. Between Text and Practice: Considerations in the Anthropological Study of Islam -- 6. The Study of Islam in Local Contexts -- 7. Beyond Ideology and Theology: The Search for the Anthropology of Islam -- 8. Two Countries, Two Cultures -- 9. Islamic Movements: One or Many? -- 10. Islam in Contemporary Southeast Asia: History, Community, Morality -- 11. Beyond Orientalism? Max Weber and the Displacements of "Essentialism" in the Study of Islam -- PART III: RELIGION -- 12. The Muslim East as It Presents Itself -- 13. The Special Case of Islam -- 14. Religion is a Different Matter -- 15. Official, Popular, and Normative Religion in Islam -- 16. The Limits of Islamic Orthodoxy -- 17. Defining Islam in the Throes of Modernity -- 18. Islam, Europe, the West: Meanings-at-Stake and the Will-to-Power -- PART IV: CIVILIZATION -- 19. The Problem: Unity in Diversity -- 20. The Dialectic of a Cultural Tradition -- 21. Conscience in the Construction of Religion: A Critique of Marshall G. S. Hodgson's The Venture of Islam -- 22. Conversion as a Social Process -- PART V: THE MEDIA -- 23. Islam and the West -- 24. Islam and the Western Journalist -- Glossary -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description based upon print version of record
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Islam
;
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0617/2006023173.html
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