A Reflexive Islamic Modernity

Academic Knowledge and Religious Subjectivity in the Global Ismaili Community

Mohammad Magout (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

2020
Ergon (Verlag)
9783956506369 (ISBN)

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Nizari Ismailis are one of most active Muslim communities in academic education and knowledge production in the fields of Islamic studies and humanities. For this purpose, the community runs two academic institutions based in London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations. Drawing on sociological approaches to religion and knowledge, this study examines the academic discourse of these two institutes an the religious subjectivities of their international body of students. It shows that the Ismaili community is navigating challenges along three axes: its relationship to secular modernity, to mainstream Islam, and to itself (its own history and identity). The Ismaili response to this three-dimensional challenge is interpreted as a process of reflexive modernization, whereby Islam is discursively reconceptualized as culture rather than religion and uncertainty is internalized into individual religious subjectivity.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2020
Reihe/Serie	Religion in der Gesellschaft ; 47
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 227 mm
Gewicht	369 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
Schlagworte	Aga Khan • Belief • cognitive dissonance • Culture • Glaube • Kultur • Nizari-Ismailiten • religiöse Studentenschaft • religiöse Studentenschaft • Säkularisierung • Säkularismus • Säkularisierung • Säkularismus • Secularism • Secularization • Social Sciences • transnationale religiöse Bewegungen • transnationale religiöse Bewegungen • Transnational Religious Movements • University
ISBN-13	9783956506369 / 9783956506369
Zustand	Neuware