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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255289903321

Autore

Jung Dietrich

Titolo

Muslim History and Social Theory [[electronic resource] ] : A Global Sociology of Modernity / / by Dietrich Jung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-52608-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 133 p.)

Collana

The Modern Muslim World

Disciplina

320.956

Soggetti

Middle East—Politics and government

Islam

History, Modern

Religion—History

World history

Culture

Middle Eastern Politics

Modern History

History of Religion

World History, Global and Transnational History

Global/International Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction: Searching for Similarities -- Chapter 2: Multiple, Entangled, and Successive Modernities: Putting Modernity in the Plural -- Chapter 3: Functional Differentiation, Theories of Emergence, and World Society: The Macro Level of Modernity -- Chapter 4: Contingency, Modern Subjectivity, and Cultural Types: The Micro Level of Modernity -- Chapter 5: Modernization, Organization, and Global Cultural Scripts: The Meso Level of Modernity -- Chapter 6: Conclusions: Emerging Global Modernity.

Sommario/riassunto

This book combines contemporary discussions on modernity with the history of the Muslim world. From a heuristic perspective, it is sketching out a framework for a global sociology of modernity. This



framework attempts to accommodate a core assumption of classical modernization theory – the global nature of modernity – with the pluralistic perspective of the rise of a multiplicity of historically concrete forms of modernities. It tries to reconcile a universalistic concept of modernity with the fact of modernity’s multiple historical realizations. At the same time, this discussion of contemporary social theory puts forward a critique of the still so conveniently applied equation of modernization with Westernization. In empirical terms, the book substantiates this critique in drawing its exemplary illustrations from the historical experience of Muslim peoples. Bringing Muslim history and discussions in social theory together, this book represents a synthesis of research efforts in sociology and Islamic studies.