Exploring Islam beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism sociological approaches / Christel Gärtner, Heidemarie Winkel, editors.

Islamic religion has become an object of political discourse in ways that also affects academic reflection; against this background this volume aims to provide a theoretically and empirically founded assessment of where social sciences currently stand with regard to Islam. For this purpose, the volu...

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Other Authors: Gärtner, Christel, 1958- (Editor), Winkel, Heidemarie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : Springer VS, [2021]
Series:Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie in der DGS.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Exploring Islam beyond Orentalism and Occidentalism / Christel Gärtner, Heidemarie Winkel
  • [I]. Sociology of Islam beyond Orientalism. Islam and post-Orientalism : debates concerning comparative and historical sociology / Bryan S. Turner
  • The sociology of Islam : beyond Orientalism, toward transculturality? / Armando Salvatore
  • Prospects for a relational sociology of Islam : some remarks on differentiation theory, multiple modernities, and the pitfalls of Occidentalism / Daniel Witte
  • The gendered perception of Islam in Western Societies : problematizing culturalist and feminist approaches / Christel Gärtner
  • [II]. Islam re-negotiated : global case studies. The elephant in the room : the silent Moroccan path towards secularization / Aziz Chahir
  • Kamel Daoud, the colonizer and the Fatwa : negotiating Islam in Algeria / Isabella Schwaderer
  • Islamic feminism : thinking gender justice as a religious knowledge practice / Heidemarie Winkel
  • [III]. Configurations of Islam in Europe. Understanding the religion-politics nexus in Turkey : continuties and ruptures / Sinem Adar
  • Cultivating a common world from a specific place : the case of Muslim internet media outlets in France
  • Islam at work : how Muslim women in France and Germany reconcile piety and profession / Linda Hennig
  • Young male Salafis in Germany - Ticking Bombs? : a biographical approach / Gritt Klinkhammer
  • Education and certainity : one the importance of education in Fethullah M. Gülen's thinking / Johannes Twardella.