Muslim History and Social Theory (eBook)

Dietrich Jung is a Professor and Head of Department at the Center for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark. He holds a MA in Political Science and Islamic Studies, as well as a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg, Germany, and has large field experience in the Muslim world. His most recent books are Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam (2011), and The Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Islam, Youth and Social Activism in the Middle East, together with Marie Juul Petersen and Sara Lei Sparre (New York: Palgrave, 2014).

1. Introduction: Searching for Similarities2. Multiple, Entangled, and Successive Modernities: Putting Modernity in the Plural3. Functional Differentiation, Theories of Emergence, and World Society: The Macro Level of Modernity4. Contingency, Modern Subjectivity, and Cultural Types: The Micro Level of Modernity5. Modernization, Organization, and Global Cultural Scripts: The Meso Level of Modernity6. Conclusions: Emerging Global Modernity