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UNINA9910780649503321 |
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Autore |
Morgan Diane |
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Essential Islam [[electronic resource] ] : a comprehensive guide to belief and practice / / Diane Morgan |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : ABC-CLIO, , 2009 |
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New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023 |
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979-84-00-64738-3 |
1-282-34157-X |
9786612341571 |
0-313-36026-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Islam |
Islam - Customs and practices |
Islam - Doctrines |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-259) and index. |
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Preliminaries; Contents; Notes on Language and Orthography; Author's Note; Introduction and Background; Chapter 1 What Muslims Believe: Essential Articles of Faith; Chapter 2 Essential Elements of Islamic Practice; Chapter 3 Muhammad; Chapter 4 Islamic Law and Cultural Practices; Chapter 5 The Many Faces of Islam; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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Essential Islam: A Comprehensive Guide to Belief and Practice is the ideal beginner's resource on the core elements of a faith that, like Christianity and Judaism, offers a guide to holy living and a path to salvation-one that like other world faiths has inspired peace and war, tolerance and brutality, enlightenment and abysmal ignorance.||Essential Islam offers an insightful, objective look at Islam from its inception to the present day, including a discussion of Islamic beliefs about God, history, warfare, marriage, the afterlife, and the relationship between Islam and other faiths. It is a |
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UNINA9910777375903321 |
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Autore |
Sharot Stephen |
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A comparative sociology of world religions [[electronic resource] ] : virtuosos, priests, and popular religion / / Stephen Sharot |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2001 |
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0-8147-8352-X |
0-8147-8663-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Religion and sociology |
Religions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-335) and index. |
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World religions, elites, and popular religion -- Religious action : a Weberian model -- Elites and masses : Max Weber, Weberian scholars, and Marxist analysis -- China : state religion, elites, and popular religion in a syncretistic milieu -- India : Brahmans, renouncers, and popular Hinduism -- Nirvana and spirits : Buddhism and animism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia -- Hierocracy and popular religion : Catholicism in 'traditional' Europe -- Elite scholars and popular saints : a brief excursus on Islam and Judaism -- Protestants, Catholics, and the reform of popular religion -- Comparisons. |
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A Sociology of World Religions presents a comparative analysis of the world's religions, focusing on the differences and interrelationships between religious elites and lay masses. In each case the volume contextualizes how the relationships between these two religious forms fit within, and are influenced by, the wider socio-political environment. After introducing the book's major themes, the volume introduces and builds upon an analysis of Weber's model of religious action, drawing on Durkheim, Marxist scholars, and the work of contemporary sociologists and anthropolgists. The following chap |
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