Religion and politics [electronic resource] : Islam and Muslim civilization / Jan-Erik Lane, Hamadi Redissi ; with a chapter by Riadh Sidaoui.
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 polit...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via Taylor & Francis) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Pub. Co.,
©2009.
|
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Modernity, post-modernity and the Muslim world
- Islam and post-modernity
- The Weber thesis
- Mohammed
- a political prophet
- Islam: faith and rationality
- Traditional domination
- Islamic law and Arab legal institutions
- Capitalism in Muslim countries
- The modernisation of Arabia
- Separation between state and religion?
- Towards a new fundamentalism
- Islam and democracy
- Islam and politics: where the principal difficulty of post-modernity lies
- Religion and human rights: constants and constraints
- Islamic politics and the military: Algeria 1962-2008
- Islam
- a religion of warriors?
- Fundamentalism and the state: need for mutual explanation.