Beyond Piety and Politics (eBook)

Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa

Sabri Ciftci, F. Michael Wuthrich, Ammar Shamaileh (Autoren)

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2022
272 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06055-6 (ISBN)

Infos

— A deeper and more nuanced understanding of the relationship between religion and politics is at all times important. What the authors of this work offer is a new way of incorporating both empirical and quantitative studies to understand how piety informs political thinking for Muslims. This innovative new approach yields data that will provoke a great deal of conversation and debate for years to come. — Our titles in Middle East and North African studies are popular and well regarded. The title adds to the list as it broadens the scope beyond the ethnographic and historical to engage more specifically with the field and theories of political science. This breadth is welcomed as we investigate new ways of exploring and explaining the MENA region and encouraging new readers to interact with our titles. — This work will appeal to scholars and students working on comparative politics, political theory, public policy, and religion and politics as it relates to Islam.

By highlighting the dynamic societal and political implications of religious devotion, Beyond Piety and Politics offers a fascinating new theoretical perspective on Islam.

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How do ordinary men and women in Muslim-majority societies create religion-informed views of political topics such as democracy and economics?

Beyond Piety and Politics provides a groundbreaking approach to understanding the depth and variety of political attitudes held by people who consider themselves to be pious Muslims. Using survey data on religious preferences and behavior, the authors argue for the relevance and importance of four outlook categories—religious individualist, social communitarian, religious communitarian, and post-Islamist—and use these to explore complex and nuanced attitudes of devout Muslims toward issues like democracy and economic distribution. They also reveal how intrafaith variation in political attitudes is not due simply to doctrinal differences but is also a product of the social aspects of religious association operating within political contexts.

By highlighting the dynamic societal and political implications of religious devotion, Beyond Piety and Politics offers a fascinating new theoretical perspective on Islam and politics.

Autor

Sabri Ciftci is Professor of Political Science and the Michael W. Suleiman Chair at Kansas State University. He is author of Islam, Justice, and Democracy.

F. Michael Wuthrich is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Center for Global and International Studies at the University of Kansas. He is author of National Elections in Turkey: People, Politics, and the Party System.

Ammar Shamaileh is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He is author of Trust and Terror: Social Capital and the Use of Terrorism as a Tool of Resistance.

Inhalt

Dedication
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Religious Communities, the State, and Religious Outlooks
2. Attitudes of the Devout: The Nature of the Substance or the Nurture of Relationship?
3. Empirical Foundations of Religious Outlooks
4. The Individual and Contextual Determinants of Muslim Religious Outlooks in MENA
5. Islam and Support for Democracy
6. Temporal Change in Religious Outlooks and Political Preferences
7. Islam and Distributive Preferences
Conclusion
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 28 b&w illus., 30 b&w tables
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Community • Comparative • Democracy • Islam • Islamic • Morocco • Muslim • pious • Religiosity • Religious • Saudi Arabia • Secular • state-religion • Turkey
• ISBN-10: 0-253-06055-9 / 0253060559
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-06055-6 / 9780253060556