The sociology of Islam: Collected essays of Bryan S. Turner
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Farnham, Surrey )UK(; Burlington )USA(
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Ashgate
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Contemporary thought in the Islamic world
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Edited by Bryan S. Turner and Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir
ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE
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Islam, capitalism and the Weber theses -- Origins and traditions in Islam and Christianity -- State, science and economy in traditional societies -- Conscience in the construction of religion: a critique of Marshall G.S. Hodgson's The venture of Islam -- Orientalism, Islam and capitalism -- On the concept of axial space: orientalism and the originary -- Orientalism, or the politics of the text -- Leibniz, Islam and cosmopolitan virtue -- Sovereignty and emergency: political theology, Islam and American conservatism -- Class, generation and Islamism: towards a global sociology of political Islam -- Religious authority and the new media -- Women, piety and practice: a study of women and religious practice in Malaysia -- The body and piety: the hijab and marriage -- Islam, diaspora and multiculturalism -- Shari'a and legal pluralism in the West