1. Islam, capitalism and the Weber theses -- 2. Origins and traditions in Islam and Christianity -- 3. State, science and economy in traditional societies : some problems in Weberian sociology of science -- 4. Conscience in the construction of religion : a critique of Marshall G.S. Hodgson's The venture of Islam -- 5. Orientalism, Islam and capitalism -- 6. On the concept of axial space : orientalism and the originary -- 7. Orientalism, or the politics of the text -- 8. Leibniz, Islam and cosmopolitan virtue -- 9. Sovereignty and emergency : political theology, Islam and American conservatism -- 10. Class, generation and Islamism : towards a global sociology of political Islam -- 11. Religious authority and the new media -- 12. Women, piety and practice : a study of women and religious practice in Malaysia / Joy Kooi-Chin Tong & Bryan S. Turner -- 13. The body and piety : the hijab and marriage / Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Alesius Pereira & Bryan S. Turner -- 14. Islam, diaspora, and multiculturalism -- 15. Shari'a and legal pluralism in the west / Bryan S. Turner & Berna Zengin Arslan. |