Table of Contents
Contents: Preface, Daniel Martin Varisco; Introduction: Bryan Turner: building the sociology of Islam; Introduction to Section I Classical Approaches - Understanding Islam, Bryan S. Turner; Islam, capitalism and the Weber theses; Origins and tradition in Islam and Christianity; State, science and economy in traditional societies: some problems in Weberian sociology of science; Conscience in the construction of religion: a critique of Marshall G.S. Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam. Introduction to Section II: Orientalist Debate - Positioning Islam, Bryan S. Turner; 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. Introduction to Section III Islam Today - Sociological Perspectives, Bryan S. Turner; 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 space: a study of women and religious practice in Malaysia, Joy Kooi-Chin Tong and Bryan S. Turner; The body and piety: the hijab and marriage, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Alexius Pereira and Bryan S. Turner; Islam, diaspora and multiculturalism; Shari’a and legal pluralism in the West, Bryan S. Turner and Berna Zengin Arslan; Appendix; Index.