Understanding Islam
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474498739 (ISBN)
Can we understand a religion without believing and practicing it? Can we have knowledge about faith? Can people understand those different from themselves? Can outsiders ever understand the world of insiders? Examining insider and outsider positions of knowledge Bryan S. Turner explores what understanding Islam entails. He argues that understanding Islam has in recent years been dominated by political events – the Iran Hostage crisis, the fall of the Iranian Shah, 9/11, Afghanistan and the foreign policy of Donald Trump – leading to western intellectuals and public figures, many of whom know nothing about Islam, suddenly becoming experts. Turner asks how they, or how anyone, can have the authority to speak on this subject. He brilliantly elucidates the questions and problems involved in the challenge of understanding religion.
Bryan Turner is Professor of Sociology, Australian Catholic University; Emeritus Professor the Graduate Center, CUNY; Honorary Professor, Potsdam University; and Fellow Edward Cadbury Center, University of Birmingham. He is one of the world’s leading sociologists of religion and has also devoted significant attention to sociological theory, the study of human rights and the sociology of the body. Turner has written, co-authored or edited more than 70 books and more than 200 articles and chapters, including most recently The Religious and the Political: A Comparative Sociology of Religion (2013) and Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State (2011), both published by Cambridge University Press. He is a founding editor of the journals Body & Society, Citizenship Studies and Journal of Classical Sociology.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: What is Understandinng?
1. The Changing World of Islam
2. Insiders and Outsiders
3. The Rise of the Sociology of Islam
4. Postmodernism, Globalisation and Religion
5. Orientalism and Islam
6. Islamophobia
7. Feminism, Fertility and Piety
8. The Problems of Positionality
9. The Possibility of Dialogue
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.02.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Globalised Muslim Societies |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 190 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781474498739 / 9781474498739 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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