The Sociology of Islam (eBook)
344 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-66262-5 (ISBN)
The volume focuses on ideas of knowledge, power and civility to provide students and readers with analytic and critical thinking frameworks for understanding the complex social facets of Islamic traditions and institutions. The study of the sociology of Islam improves the understanding of Islam as a diverse force that drives a variety of social and political arrangements.
Delving into both conceptual questions and historical interpretations, The Sociology of Islam is a transdisciplinary, comparative resource for students, scholars, and policy makers seeking to understand Islam's complex changes throughout history and its impact on the modern world.
Armando Salvatore is Professor of Global Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal, and Professor at the Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies of the Australian National University, Canberra. His work as a social scientist emphasizes transregional comparison and explores the Islamic ecumene's socio-political trajectories as well as transcultural interconnections. As a complement to The Sociology of Islam he is editing The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam. Among his previous works are Islam and the Political Discourse of Modernity (1997), Public Islam and the Common Good (edited with Dale F. Eickelman, 2004), The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism and Islam (2007), and Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates (edited with Muhammad Khalid Masud and Martin van Bruinessen, 2009).
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Knowledge and Power in the Sociology of Islam 1
Knowledge/Charisma vs. Power/Wealth: The Challenge of Religious Movements 18
Civility as the Engine of the Knowledge-Power Equation: Islam and 'Islamdom' 23
Part I Patterns of Civility
1 The Limits of Civil Society and the Path to Civility 43
The Origins of Modern Civil Society 43
Civil Society as a Site of Production of Modern Power 50
Folding Civil Society into a Transversal Notion of Civility 57
2 Brotherhood as a Matrix of Civility: The Islamic Ecumene and Beyond 73
Between Networking, 'Charisma,' and Social Autonomy: The Contours of 'Spiritual' Brotherhoods 73
Beyond Sufism: The Unfolding of the Brotherhood 85
Rewriting Charisma into Brotherhood 92
Part II Islamic Civility in Historical and Comparative Perspective
3 Flexible Institutionalization and the Expansive Civility of the Islamic Ecumene 105
The Steady Expansion of Islamic Patterns of Translocal Civility 105
Authority, Autonomy, and Power Networks: A Grid of Flexible Institutions 114
The Permutable Combinations of Normativity and Civility 118
4 Social Autonomy and Civic Connectedness: The Islamic Ecumene in Comparative Perspective 131
New Patterns of Civic Connectedness Centered on the 'Commoners' 131
Liminality, Charisma, and Social Organization 140
Municipal Autonomy vs. Translocal Connectedness 147
Part III Modern Islamic Articulations of Civility
5 Knowledge and Power: The Civilizing Process before Colonialism 165
From the Mongol Impact to the Early Modern Knowledge-Power Configurations 165
Taming the Warriors into Games of Civility? Violence, Warfare, and Peace 176
The Long Wave of Power Decentralization 189
6 Colonial Blueprints of Order and Civility 201
The Metamorphosis of Civility under Colonialism 201
Court Dynamics and Emerging Elites: The Complexification of the Civilizing Process 218
Class, Gender, and Generation: The Ultimate Testing Grounds of the Educational-Civilizing Project 226
7 Global Civility and Its Islamic Articulations 239
The Dystopian Globalization of Civility 239
Diversifying Civility as the Outcome of Civilizing Processes 251
From Islamic Exceptionalism to a Plural Islamic Perspective 260
Conclusion 271
Overcoming Eurocentric Views: Religion and Civility within Islam/Islamdom 271
The Institutional Mold of Islamic Civility: Contractualism vs. Corporatism? 278
From the Postcolonial Condition toward New Fragile Patterns of Translocal Civility 287
Index 295
Sociologists of religion have long been awaiting a successor volume to Brian Turner 's pathbreaking but now dated Weber and Islam (1974). Armando Salvatore's new book provides just this update and much more. Ranging across a host of critical case studies and theoretical issues, Salvatore provides a masterful account of religious ethics, rationalization, and civility across the breadth of the Muslim world, from early times to today. The result is a book of deep intellectual insight, important, not just for the sociology of Islam, but for scholars and students interested in religion, ethics, and modernity in all civilizational traditions.
Robert Hefner, Boston University
The sociology of Islam has been a late and controversial addition to the sociology of religion. This field of research has been the principal target of the critique of Orientalism and after 9/11 the study of Islam became heavily politicized. Terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut have only compounded the long-standing difficulties of objective interpretation and understanding. In the first volume of what promises to be a major three volume masterpiece, Armando Salvatore steers a careful and judicious course through the various pitfalls that attend the field. The result is an academic triumph combining a sweeping historical vision of Islam with an analytical framework that is structured by the theme of knowledge-power. One waits with huge excitement for the delivery of the remaining volumes.
Bryan Turner, City University of New York
A brilliant, pioneering effort to explain the cosmopolitan ethos within Islamicate civilization, The Sociology of Islam encompasses all the terminological boldness of Marshal Hodgson, making the Persianate and Islamicate elements of civic cosmopolitanism, across the vast Afro-Eurasian ecumene, accessible to the widest possible readership in both the humanities and the social sciences.
Bruce B. Lawrence, author of Who is Allah? (2015)
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.2.2016 |
---|---|
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Schlagworte | Geschichte • Geschichte des Islams • History • history of islam • Islam • Religion & Theology • Religionsgeschichte • Religionssoziologie • Religion u. Theologie • Sociology • Sociology of Religion • Soziologie |
ISBN-10 | 1-118-66262-8 / 1118662628 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-118-66262-5 / 9781118662625 |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
![PDF](/img/icon_pdf_big.jpg)
Größe: 3,4 MB
Kopierschutz: Adobe-DRM
Adobe-DRM ist ein Kopierschutz, der das eBook vor Mißbrauch schützen soll. Dabei wird das eBook bereits beim Download auf Ihre persönliche Adobe-ID autorisiert. Lesen können Sie das eBook dann nur auf den Geräten, welche ebenfalls auf Ihre Adobe-ID registriert sind.
Details zum Adobe-DRM
Dateiformat: PDF (Portable Document Format)
Mit einem festen Seitenlayout eignet sich die PDF besonders für Fachbücher mit Spalten, Tabellen und Abbildungen. Eine PDF kann auf fast allen Geräten angezeigt werden, ist aber für kleine Displays (Smartphone, eReader) nur eingeschränkt geeignet.
Systemvoraussetzungen:
PC/Mac: Mit einem PC oder Mac können Sie dieses eBook lesen. Sie benötigen eine
eReader: Dieses eBook kann mit (fast) allen eBook-Readern gelesen werden. Mit dem amazon-Kindle ist es aber nicht kompatibel.
Smartphone/Tablet: Egal ob Apple oder Android, dieses eBook können Sie lesen. Sie benötigen eine
Geräteliste und zusätzliche Hinweise
Zusätzliches Feature: Online Lesen
Dieses eBook können Sie zusätzlich zum Download auch online im Webbrowser lesen.
Buying eBooks from abroad
For tax law reasons we can sell eBooks just within Germany and Switzerland. Regrettably we cannot fulfill eBook-orders from other countries.
aus dem Bereich