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Exploring Islam beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism

Sociological Approaches

  • Fundamental insight into current sociological debates on the sociology of 'Islam'
  • With focus on empirically founded, theoretical reorientation
  • International contribution

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction: Exploring Islam Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism

    • Christel Gärtner, Heidemarie Winkel
    Pages 1-18
  3. Islam Re-Negotiated—Global Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 333-335

About this book

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 volume continues to develop the sociological knowledge of Islam that began in the 1980s. Given the Orientalism inherent in sociology, the volume focuses on Muslim knowledge systems and institutions, as well as the practice of Muslim religiosity in various social contexts stretching from Algeria and Morocco to Turkey.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Exzellenzcluster Religion und Politik, Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

    Christel Gärtner

  • Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld, Germany

    Heidemarie Winkel

About the editors

Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner works at the University of Münster in the Cluster of Excellence "Religion und Politik".

Prof. Dr. Heidemarie Winkel teaches sociology at Bielefeld University and is Senior Research Associate at Cambridge University.

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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