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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806186403321

Autore

Çiftçi Sabri

Titolo

Beyond piety and politics : religion, social relations, and public preferences in the Middle East and North Africa / / by Sabri Ciftci, F. Michael Wuthrich, Ammar Shamaileh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

0-253-06054-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 251 pages) : illustrations, charts

Collana

Middle East studies

Disciplina

302.2309174927

Soggetti

Public opinion - Arab countries

Public opinion - Middle East

Public opinion - Africa, North

Islam and politics - Public opinion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Religious Communities, the State, and Religious Outlooks -- 2. Attitudes of the Devout: The Nature of the Substance or the Nurture of Relationship? -- 3. Empirical Foundations of Religious Outlooks -- 4. The Individual and Contextual Determinants of Muslim Religious Outlooks in MENA -- 5. Islam and Support for Democracy -- 6. Temporal Change in Religious Outlooks and Political Preferences -- 7. Islam and Distributive Preferences -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"How do ordinary men and women in Muslim-majority societies create religion-informed views of political topics such as democracy and economics? Beyond Piety and Politics provides a groundbreaking approach to understanding the depth and variety of political attitudes held by people who consider themselves to be pious Muslims. Using survey data on religious preferences and behavior, the authors argue for the relevance and importance of four outlook categories-Religious Individualist, Social Communitarian, Post-Islamist, and Religious Communitarian-and use these to explore complex and nuanced attitudes of devout Muslims toward issues like democracy and



economic distribution. They also reveal how intra-faith variation in political attitudes is not simply doctrinal differences, but also a product of the social aspects of religious association operating within political contexts. By highlighting the dynamic societal and political implications of religious devotion, Beyond Piety and Politics offers a fascinating new theoretical perspective on Islam and politics"--