The sociology of Islam collected essays of Bryan S. Turner / edited by Bryan S. Turner and Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir.
| Author/creator | Turner, Bryan S. |
| Other author | Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, |
| Description | xii, 312 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Contemporary thought in the Islamic world |
| Contents | Islam, capitalism and the Weber theses -- Origins and traditions in Islam and Christianity -- State, science and economy in traditional societies -- Conscience in the construction of religion: a critique of Marshall G.S. Hodgson's The venture of Islam -- Orientalism, Islam and capitalism -- On the concept of axial space: orientalism and the originary -- Orientalism, or the politics of the text -- Leibniz, Islam and cosmopolitan virtue -- Sovereignty and emergency: political theology, Islam and American conservatism -- Class, generation and Islamism: towards a global sociology of political Islam -- Religious authority and the new media -- Women, piety and practice: a study of women and religious practice in Malaysia -- The body and piety: the hijab and marriage -- Islam, diaspora and multiculturalism -- Shari'a and legal pluralism in the West. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012049925 |
| ISBN | 9781409462118 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781409462125 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9781472407573 (epub) |