Jan-Erik Lane, Hamadi Redissi

Religion and Politics

Islam and Muslim Civilization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offering a timely new appraisal of the political and social impact of Islam, this expanded second edition of Religion and Politics has been fully updated in line with new events. Jan-Erik Lane and Hamadi Redissi look at the underlying social consequences of religious beliefs to account for the political differences between major civilizations of the world against a background of the rise of modern capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780754674184
• ISBN-10: 0754674185
• Artikelnr.: 57049300

Autorenporträt

Jan-Erik Lane, University of Freiburg, Germany and Hamedi Redissi is Professor at the University of Tunis in Tunisia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Section I The Muslim Civilisation and Modernisation: Modernity, post-modernity and the Muslim world
Islam and post-modernity
The Weber thesis. Section II Islam as a World Religion: Mohammed - a political prophet
Islam: faith and rationality. Section III The Muslim Legacy: Traditional domination
Islamic law and Arab legal institutions
Capitalism in Muslim countries. Section IV Paths of Muslim Modernisation: The modernisation of Arabia
Separation between state and religion?
Towards a new fundamentalism. Section V The Problems of Muslim Civilisation Modernisation: Islam and democracy
Islam and politics: where the principal difficulty of post-modernity lies. Section IV State and Religion in Maghreb: Religion and human rights: constants and constraints
Islamic politics and the military: Algeria 1962-2008 Riadh Sidaoui. Epilogue: Islam - a religion of warriors?
Fundamentalism and the state: need for mutual explanation
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.