Broschiertes Buch

Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective

Beschreibung

This collection reframes the debate around Islam and women's rights within a broader comparative literature that examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality.

Autor

Jocelyne Cesari is Professor of Religion and Politics at the University of Birmingham and Senior Research fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center where she directs the Islam in World Politics Program. She is an adjunct Professor at the Harvard Divinity School and directs the interfaculty Program on Islam in the West at Harvard University. Her publications include The Islamic Awakening: Religion, Democracy and Modernity (2014) and Why the West Fears Islam: An Exploration of Islam in Western Liberal Democracies (2013). She is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of European Islam (2015). José Casanova is Professor at the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University, and heads the Berkley Center's Program on Globalization, Religion, and the Secular. He has published works in a broad range of subjects, including religion and globalization, migration and religious pluralism, transnational religions, and sociological theory. He is the author of Public Religions in the Modern World (1994).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780198842088
• ISBN-10: 0198842082
• Artikelnr.: 55459012