John R. Bowen

A New Anthropology of Islam

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This powerful, accessible new study explores the contributions that anthropology has made to the study and understanding of Islam.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780521822824
• ISBN-10: 0521822823
• Artikelnr.: 36053103

Autorenporträt

John R. Bowen is the Dunbar¿Van Cleve Professor in Arts and Sciences, Washington University, St Louis. His fieldwork in Indonesia, France and England, on topics ranging from poetics and political history to civil law reasoning and everyday forms of Islam, has spanned over thirty years. He has published widely on his research interests, and his Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia (Cambridge, 2003) won the prize for best work from the Law and Society Association.

Inhaltsangabe

1. How to think about religions - Islam, for example
2. Learning
3. Perfecting piety through worship
4. Reshaping sacrifice
5. Healing and praying
6. Pious organizing
7. Judging
8. Migrating and adapting
9. Mobilizing.