The Sociology of Shari’a (eBook)

Case Studies from Around the World
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2023 | 2nd ed. 2023
VI, 361 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-27188-5 (ISBN)

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This edited collection focuses on the comparative analysis of the application of Shari'a in countries with Muslim minorities (e.g. USA, Australia, Germany and Italy) and majorities (e.g. Malaysia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Morocco). Most chapters in this new edition have been revised and the book as a whole has been updated to give even more international coverage.  

This text provides a sociological and global analysis of a phenomenon that goes beyond the 'West versus the rest' dichotomy. One example of this is how included are case studies in Muslim minority countries not exclusively located in the West.  Although the contributors of this book come from various disciplines such as law, anthropology, and sociology, this volume has a strong sociological focus on the analysis of Shari'a. The final part of the book indeed draws out from all the case studies explored some ground-breaking theories on the sociology of Shari'a such as the application of Black, Chambliss and Eisenstein's sociological theories.  This text appeals to students and researchers working in the sociology of religion.  



Adam Possamai is professor in Sociology and Deputy Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. He is the (co)author and (co)editor of 20 books, and close to 100 articles and book chapters. He is a former President of Research Committee 22 on the Sociology of Religion from the International Sociological Association, and a former President of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions. His work has been published in English, French, Spanish, Romanian and Slovakian. He was a visiting scholar at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

James T. Richardson, J.D., Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he directed the Judicial Studies graduate degree program for trial judges, and also was a faculty member in the Sociology Department and in the Social Psychology doctoral program. He has published nearly 300 articles and book chapters in his career, mostly about new and minority religious groups, including Islam in western countries. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Rockefeller Fellow, and has been a formal visitor at universities in England, the Netherlands, and Australia.  He has made presentations in over 30 countries during his career. He has served as President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and the American Association of University Professors.

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology at the Australian Catholic University He was the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College (2009-10). His publications in the sociology of religion include Weber and Islam (1974), Religion and Social Theory (1983), (with Kamaludeen and Pereira) Muslims in Singapore (2010) and Religion and Modern Society (2011). He is the founding editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and with John O'Neill of the Journal of Classical Sociology. With Anthony Elliot, he published On Society (2012). From 1998-2005 he was professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge.  He edited the Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (2006), and was awarded a doctor of letters by the University in 2009.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.4.2023
Reihe/Serie Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
Zusatzinfo VI, 361 p. 1 illus.
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte Family Law • Islamic Banking • Legal Pluralism • Personal Law • Post-secularism • Religion and Courts • religious diversity • Shari’a in the West • social inequality and islam • social structure and islam • Sociology of Law • Sociology of Religion • sociology of religion and shari'a
ISBN-10 3-031-27188-2 / 3031271882
ISBN-13 978-3-031-27188-5 / 9783031271885
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