Record Nr.

UNINA9910488690703321

Titolo

Exploring Islam beyond orientalism and occidentalism : sociological approaches / / edited by Christel Gärtner and Heidemarie Winkel

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Wiesbaden, Germany : , : Springer, , [2021]
©2021

ISBN

3-658-33239-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 pages)

Collana

Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft Für Soziologie

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Islam - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Exploring Islam Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism -- Teil I Sociology of Islam beyond Orientalism -- 2 Islam and Post-orientalism: Debates Concerning Comparative and Historical Sociology -- 1 Introduction: The Fall and Rise of the Sociology of Religion -- 2 The Invention of the Sociology of Islam -- 3 Sociology of Islamophobia-Advocacy Concepts in Sociology -- 4 Protestantization and Urban Piety -- 5 Globalization, Comparative Sociology, and Methodological Nationalism -- 6 Does the Sociology of Islam Have a Future? -- 7 An Alternative Sociology of Religion: The Axial Age -- Reports -- 3 The Sociology of Islam: Beyond Orientalism, Toward Transculturality? -- 1 Introduction: Framing Islam -- 2 Sociology on the Battlefield of the Study of Islam -- 3 The Venture of Islam -- 4 Circulation and Transculturality -- 5 Conclusion -- 4 Prospects for a Relational Sociology of Islam: Some Remarks on Differentiation Theory, Multiple Modernities, and the Pitfalls of Occidentalism -- 1 Introduction: Islam as Sociology's Intellectual Stepchild -- 2 Islam, Secularization, and the Classical Theory of Differentiation -- 2.1 Max Weber and the (Non-)Differentiation of Spheres in Islam -- 2.2 Islam as an Evolutionary Laggard: Parsons and Luhmann -- 2.3 From Teleologies to Modes of Differentiation: Shmuel Eisenstadt -- 3 Revisiting Islam's Plurality from a Differentiation

Theoretical Perspective -- 4 Outlook: Relational Sociology and Multiple Differentiations Beyond the West -- 5 The Gendered Perception of Islam in Western Societies: Problematizing Culturalist and Feminist Approaches -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Gendered Perception of Islam in the Public Discourse -- 3 Feminist and Culturalist Interpretations of the Muslim Gender Order.

3.1 External Perception of Muslim Women: Implications of Secular-Feminist Interpretations -- 3.2 The Construct of Turkish-Muslim Masculinity: The Problem of Culturalist and Essentialist Approaches -- 4 The Multilayered and Contradictory Reality of Muslim Gender Orders -- 4.1 Muslim Women in the Context of Migration: Self-Confident, Educationally Oriented, and Religious -- 4.2 Appropriation of Masculinity in the Complex Relationships Between Migration, Milieu of Origin, and Social Context -- 5 Outlook -- Teil I Islam Re-Negotiated-Global Case Studies -- 6 The Elephant in the Room: The Silent Moroccan Path Towards Secularization -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Methodological Approach -- 1.2 From the Weberian Thesis of the Disenchantment of the World to a New Analytic Framework of Islamic Secularization -- 2 Reformist Islamists Between Axiological Rationalization (Wertrationalität) and Purposive Rationalization (Zweckrationalität) -- 3 The Islamic-Oriented PJD's Involvement in the Secularization Process: Selected Cases -- 3.1 Public Morals and Accommodation with Corruption (Al-Fassad) -- 3.2 Interest-Based Loans Between Religious Requirements and Financial Capitalism -- 3.3 Artistic Practices Between Religious Puritanism and Individual Emancipation -- 3.4 The Public Sale of Alcohol -- 3.5 Individual Liberties Under the Yoke of Religious Orthodoxy -- 4 Religious Freedom as the Main Challenge of Secularization -- 5 Conclusion -- 7 Kamel Daoud, the Colonizer and the Fatwa: Negotiating Islam in Algeria -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Presuppositions-Islam as Master Signifier -- 3 Islamic Resurgence in Algeria -- 4 The Writer, the Preacher, and the Fatwa -- 5 Islam and Anti-Intellectualism -- 6 Islam and Language -- 7 Colonialism, Literature, and Islam -- 8 Conclusion -- 8 Islamic Feminism. Thinking Gender Justice as a Religious Knowledge Practice.

1 Introduction -- 2 Feminism, Methodological Secularism, and the Secular/Religious Divide -- 3 Conceptualizing the Social Order of Meaning in the Mashriq: (Political) Religion as a Symbolic Key of Social Continuity in Processes of Social Transformation -- 3.1 Intellectual and Political Change in the Mashriq: Religion as a Part and Parcel of the Symbolic Knowledge Order -- 3.2 Religion's Continuing Relevance for Women's Political Visions of the Future -- 3.3 Reformist Theological Visions of Gender Relations -- 4 Islamic Feminism as a Religious and Feminist Knowledge Practice -- 4.1 The Socio-Political Place and Contour of Islamic Feminism -- 4.2 The Central Knowledge Code and Knowledge Practice in Islamic Feminism -- 5 Conclusion: The Politics of Islamic Feminism -- Teil I Configurations of Islam in Europe -- 9 Understanding the Religion-Politics Nexus in Turkey. Continuities and Ruptures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Governing Religion -- 3 Governing an Ethnically and Religiously Diverse Population Through Religion -- 3.1 Religion and Political Community -- 3.2 Religion and Party Politics -- 3.3 Religion and Conflict -- 4 Turkish Secularism Under AKP Rule: Raising 'pious Generations' -- 5 'New Turkey': An Abrupt Rupture or a Historical Continuum? -- 6 Conclusion -- 10 Cultivating a Common World from a Specific Place: The Case of Muslim Internet Media Outlets in France -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Context of Social Misrecognition -- 3 Birth and Development of a 'Muslim' Media Outlet -- 3.1 Before

the Internet, Writing as Training -- 3.2 September 11, the Turning Point -- 3.3 The Professionalization of the Media -- 4 The Site Content and Its Readership -- 4.1 Analysis of Site Content -- 4.2 Readership Survey -- 4.3 Revealer of Intra-Muslim Diversity -- 4.4 Specific Place in the French Muslim Landscape -- 5 A Minority Media Outlet in the French Public Space.

5.1 Standardization as a Program and a Commitment -- 5.2 The Minority Media, Its Public, and the Common World -- 6 Conclusion -- 11 Islam at Work: How Muslim Women in France and Germany Reconcile Piety and Profession -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Challenges from the Theoretical Perspective of Lebensführung (Conduct of Life) Approaches -- 3 Empirical Note -- 4 A Typology of Lebensführung. Connecting Work and Religion -- 4.1 Type 1: Lebensführung with a Fusion of Spheres -- 4.2 Type 2: Lebensführung with a Separation of Spheres -- 4.3 Type 3: Lebensführung with Flexible Boundaries Between the Spheres -- 5 Discussion -- 12 Young Male Salafis in Germany-Ticking Bombs? A Biographical Approach -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Salafism in Germany: Fundamentalism, Extremism, Mainstream Islam, or Youth Protest Culture? -- 2.1 Fundamentalism -- 2.2 Extremism -- 2.3 Mainstream Islam -- 2.4 Youth Protest Culture -- 3 The Biographical Approach -- 3.1 Biography, Islam, and Adolescence -- 3.2 Biographies as Data -- 3.3 Surveying and Interpreting the Data -- 4 The Case Studies -- 4.1 Arif-"I Was Always Ashamed that I as a Muslim didn't Know What to Do" -- 4.2 Faris-"For Me, This Religion Was no Buffet" -- 4.3 Navid-"You Simply Feel the Sweetness and the Happiness in Islam" -- 5 Conclusions -- 5.1 Some Common Background Characteristics -- 5.2 Discourses, Counter-Discourses, and Biographical 'points of Suture' (Hall) of Salafism (Positioning) -- 5.3 Salafism as Adolescent Articulation of Clarity and Belonging -- Online-Resource -- 13 Education and Certainty: On the Importance of Education in Fethullah M. Gülen's Thinking -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Research on the Importance of Education in Fethullah M. Gülen's Thinking -- 3 The Problem of Certainty -- 4 The Problem of Certainty and Its Solution According to Gülen -- 5 Educational Processes Analogous to the Mystical Path -- 6 Conclusion.

Short Biographies.