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Record Nr.

UNINA9910639900403321

Autore

Jung Dietrich

Titolo

Islam in global modernity : sociological theory and the diversity of Islamic modernities / / Dietrich Jung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden, Germany : , : Springer, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

9783658399542

9783658399535

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 pages)

Disciplina

737

Soggetti

Civilization, Modern

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface to "Islam in Global Modernity: Sociological Theory and the Diversity of Islamic Modernities" by Dietrich Jung -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Islam, Modernity, Modernities, and the "Provincialization" of Europe -- 1.1 Why This Book? Autobiographical Notes and Theoretical Positioning -- 1.2 Hijra wa jawazat: Michel Foucault and Hafiz al-Asad -- 1.3 The Organization of the Book and the Course of the Argumentation -- References -- 2 Islam and Modernity: A Sketch of the Academic Engagement with the Middle East and Islam -- 2.1 Islam and the Middle East in the Understanding of Modernization Theory -- 2.2 Edward Said's Criticism of Orientalism -- 2.3 Neo-Orientalists and Renewers in Islamic Studies -- 2.4 Research on Modern Islamic Piety Movements -- 2.5 Conclusions: The State of Research -- References -- 3 Islam and the Diversity of Modernity: Multiple, Successive, and Entangled Modernities -- 3.1 Shmuel Eisenstadt: The Theory of Multiple Modernities -- 3.2 Peter Wagner: The Theory of Successive Modernities -- 3.3 Postcolonialism: The Theory of Entangled Modernities -- 3.4 Ignaz Goldziher: Orientalist and Jewish Reformer -- 3.5 Muhammad Abduh: Egyptian Grand Mufti and Islamic Reformer -- 3.6 Conclusions: Restricted Liberalisms and Colonial Entanglements -- References -- 4 Islam and the Unity of Modernity: Modernization as an "Empty Progression" -- 4.1 Emile Durkheim: Anomie, Fait Social and Organic Solidarity -- 4.2 Niklas Luhmann: World Society and Functional



Differentiation -- 4.3 Islam and Functional Differentiation: State, Economy and Science in Islamic Contexts -- 4.4 Modernity as a Cultural Project and as a Structural Process of "Empty Progression" -- 4.5 Conclusions: Unity and Difference of Modernity -- References -- 5 Islam and the Emergence of Modernity: World Society as an Emergent Social Reality.

5.1 Functional Differentiation as an Emerging Structur of Modernity -- 5.2 Emergence and Functional Differentiation in Islamic History I: Faith and Science in Islamic Thought -- 5.3 Emergence and Functional Differentiation in Islamic History II: Towards the Autonomy of Politics in the Islamic World -- 5.4 Conclusions: Max Weber and Islam -- References -- 6 Islam and the Modern Subject: Contingency, Identity, and Subject Cultures -- 6.1 Social Contingency and Modern Uncertainties -- 6.2 The Modern Subject: The Simultaneity of Autonomy and Submission -- 6.3 Typology of Modern Subject Cultures and Islamic Modernities -- 6.4 Conclusion: Islamic History in the Context of a "World Time" -- References -- 7 Islam and the Modern "World Culture": Organizations, Institutions, and Social Actors -- 7.1 World Society as World Culture: Theoretical Premises and Deliminations of the Stanford School -- 7.2 Isomorphic Forms of World Culture: Formal Organizations and Social Actors -- 7.3 Two Case Studies: Kemalist Turkey and the Islamic Republic of Iran -- 7.3.1 The Secularism of the Republic of Turkey -- 7.3.2 The Rule of the Religious Scholars in the Islamic Republic of Iran -- 7.4 Conclusions: Diffusions and Decouplings as "Circulative Adaptation" -- References -- 8 Conclusion: World Society and the Islamic Discourse of Modernity -- 8.1 Summary: Islam in Global Modernity -- 8.2 World Society as a Point of Comparison and Global History -- 8.3 The Islamic Discourse of Modernity: Authenticity and Hegemony -- References.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765862303321

Titolo

Personal Agency and Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Helsinki, : Finnish Literature Society / SKS, 2017

ISBN

952-222-954-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306)

Collana

Studia Fennica Historica ;vVolume 23

Disciplina

303.483

Soggetti

Sweden

Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Society & culture: general

Constitution: government & the state

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"Internationally, the case of early modern Sweden is noteworthy because the state building process transformed a locally dispersed and sparsely populated area into a strongly centralized absolute monarchy and European empire at the beginning of the 17th century. This anthology provides fresh insights into the state-building process in Sweden. During this transitional period, many far-reaching administrative reforms were carried out, and the Swedish state developed into a prime example of the early modern ‘powerstate’. The contributors approach Sweden’s rise to greatness from the point of view of personal agency. In early modern studies, agency has long remained in the shadow of the study of structures and institutions. This novel approach enables us to expose the difficulties, setbacks and false steps that the administration had to deal with. State building was a more diversified and personalized process than has previously been assumed. Numerous individuals were also crucially important actors in the process, and that development itself was not straightforward progression at the macro-level but was intertwined with lower-level actors.
Each chapter in this volume employs partially different methods depending on the source material and subject. This means that both



qualitative and quantitative material is combined, different ways of making sense of it (i.e. research traditions) are brought together and a multi-method design is used in analyzing source material. One of the central methods is the systematic use of previous biographical research. We want to give the individuals and their actions under discussion a background that reflects the contemporary structures of individual life cycles. With the existing biographical research, it is possible to create a comprehensive set of data that provides the general outlines of individual lives or the career tracks of various estates or social groups, and even to construct collective biographies of certain groups."