Defining Islam : a reader / / edited by Andrew Rippin

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
• Disciplina: 297
• Soggetto topico: Islam - Essence, genius, nature; Islam - 21st century; Islam - Doctrines
• Altri autori: RippinAndrew <1950->
• Note generali: First published 2007 by Equinox, an imprint of Acumen.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Sources; Introduction; PART I: THEOLOGY; 1. The Epistle of Abu Hanifa to 'Uthman al-Batti; 2. Ten Things That Nullify One's Islam; 3. The Formation of Muslim Society and its Characteristics; 4. The Spread of Islam; PART II: SOCIAL SCIENCES; 5. Between Text and Practice: Considerations in the Anthropological Study of Islam; 6. The Study of Islam in Local Contexts; 7. Beyond Ideology and Theology: The Search for the Anthropology of Islam; 8. Two Countries, Two Cultures; 9. Islamic Movements: One or Many? ; 10. Islam in Contemporary Southeast Asia: History, Community, Morality11. Beyond Orientalism? Max Weber and the Displacements of "Essentialism" in the Study of Islam; PART III: RELIGION; 12. The Muslim East as It Presents Itself; 13. The Special Case of Islam; 14. Religion is a Different Matter; 15. Official, Popular, and Normative Religion in Islam; 16. The Limits of Islamic Orthodoxy; 17. Defining Islam in the Throes of Modernity; 18. Islam, Europe, the West: Meanings-at-Stake and the Will-to-Power; PART IV: CIVILIZATION; 19. The Problem: Unity in Diversity ; 20. The Dialectic of a Cultural Tradition21. Conscience in the Construction of Religion: A Critique of Marshall G. S. Hodgson's The Venture of Islam; 22. Conversion as a Social Process; PART V: THE MEDIA; 23. Islam and the West; 24. Islam and the Western Journalist; Glossary; Index of Authors; Index of Subjects
• Titolo autorizzato: Defining Islam
• ISBN: 1-315-53969-1; 1-134-93627-3; 1-134-93620-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798232903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical categories in the study of religion.