Modernizing Islam

Religion in the Public Sphere in the Middle East and Europe
Herausgeber: Esposito, John L; Burgat, François

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Produktbeschreibung

Modernizing Islam speaks to the significance, origins, influences, and implications of Islam’s changes, and thus to the various ways in which this religion is becoming a truly global force, shaping such realms as law, politics, education, and ethics, among many others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780813531984
• ISBN-10: 0813531985
• Artikelnr.: 22110844

Autorenporträt

Esposito, John L.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
 
viii
 
The Contributors
 
ix
 
Introduction: Modernizing Islam and Re-Islamization in Global Perspective
 
1
(2)
 
John L. Esposito
 
The challenge of political Islam
 
3
(1)
 
Issues and trends in global re-Islamization
 
3
(3)
 
Re-Islamization in the public sphere
 
6
(5)
 
Re-Islamization in Europe
 
11
(6)
 
Conclusion
 
Part I. ISSUES AND TRENDS IN GLOBAL RE-ISLAMIZATION
 
 
Veils and Obscuring Lenses
 
17
(26)
 
Francois Burgat
 
Islam and Reason
 
18
(3)
 
The Islamic reference between popular perceptions and state strategies
 
21
(11)
 
France's ``Muslim policy''
 
32
(2)
 
The Khelkhal syndrome
 
34
(3)
 
France's Muslim policy defying universality
 
37
(2)
 
Islam soluble in employment?
 
39
(4)
 
The Modernizing Force of Islamism
 
43
(26)
 
Bjorn Olav Utvik
 
The Middle East in the throes of change
 
44
(1)
 
Obscurantists with cellular phones?
 
45
(5)
 
Kindred spirit: Falwell or Cromwell?
 
50
(4)
 
Economic development as a divinely imposed duty
 
54
(2)
 
``Renewal of self''---not Westernization
 
56
(1)
 
Loyal to God only---the individualizing aspect of Islamism
 
57
(4)
 
Politics for the many
 
61
(3)
 
A modernizing force
 
64
(5)
 
Islam and Civil Society
 
69
(34)
 
John L. Esposito
 
Islam
democracy and civil society
 
70
(1)
 
Contemporary Muslim politics
 
71
(1)
 
Islam and the modern state
 
71
(1)
 
The challenge of Islamic revivalism
 
72
(2)
 
Democracy and civil society in the Muslim world
 
74
(1)
 
The quiet revolution: Islam and civil society
 
75
(2)
 
Political participation and civil society
 
77
(10)
 
Government responses to civil society in the post-Gulf War period
 
87
(1)
 
Threat or challenge to civil society?
 
88
(1)
 
A triple threat?
 
89
(1)
 
The diversity of Muslim politics
 
90
(1)
 
Civil society
democratization
and foreign policy
 
91
(3)
 
Islam and pluralism
 
94
(2)
 
The empowerment of Muslim women
 
96
(7)
Part II. RE-ISLAMIZATION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
 
 
Islam and the Common Mortal
 
103
(22)
 
Fariba Adelkhah
 
Mohammad Khatami's election victory: break or continuity?
 
104
(6)
 
Funeral practices and the forming of a public space
 
110
(8)
 
Funeral practices and the creation of a political forum
 
118
(7)
 
A Return to the Shariah? Egyptian Judges and Referring to Islam
 
125
(20)
 
Baudouin Dupret
 
The reference to Islam in law and in judicial practice
 
126
(5)
 
Perspectives on Islam in law
 
131
(5)
 
The judge
the state
and the Shariah
 
136
(9)
 
Women's Islamic Activism: Between Self-Practices and Social Reform Efforts
 
145
(22)
 
Connie Carøe Christiansen
 
Angles of approach
 
146
(4)
 
Edifying Islamism
 
150
(1)
 
The dynamics of education
 
151
(1)
 
Technologies of self
 
152
(1)
 
Self-practices and social reform
 
153
(3)
 
A change of general conduct
 
156
(3)
 
Two categories of activism
 
159
(3)
 
Everyday life programmed
 
162
(1)
 
Objectified bodies
 
163
(4)
 
Islamization and Education in Egypt: Between Politics
Culture
and the Market
 
167
(26)
 
Linda Herrera
 
Liberalization
Islamization
and education
 
167
(4)
 
The battle over national education
 
171
(2)
 
Purging extremist teachers and thought from schools
 
173
(3)
 
Beyond militancy: school uniforms and the cultural politics of education
 
176
(4)
 
Private Islamic schools: between the state
non-state actors and the market
 
180
(1)
 
Negotiating gender: the school of an Islamic charitable association
 
181
(4)
 
Five star schooling: the commercialization of Islamic education
 
185
(8)
Part III. RE-ISLAMIZATION IN EUROPE
 
 
The Growing Islamization of Europe
 
193
(22)
 
Oussama Cherribi
 
The growth of Muslim communities in Europe
 
194
(1)
 
The increasing visibility of Islam in European public space
 
195
(3)
 
The role of media and new technology
 
198
(1)
 
The political mobilization of Muslim communities
 
199
(7)
 
Mobilization in comparative perspective
 
206
(1)
 
Conclusions
 
207
(3)
 
Epilogue: Life in Europe shortly after September 11
2001
 
210
(5)
 
The Holy Grail of Muslims in Western Europe: Representation and their Relationship with the State
 
215
(36)
 
Dilwar Hussain
 
Religion and state
 
217
(1)
 
Islam and Europe
 
218
(2)
 
A minority in Europe
 
220
(3)
 
Community-state Relations
 
223
(22)
 
Muslim representation in Europe
 
245
(6)
 
Muslim Minorities in Europe: The Silent Revolution
 
251
(20)
 
Jocelyne Cesari
 
Islam as a transnational religion
 
253
(3)
 
The emergence of a post-migration religious minority
 
256
(3)
 
The emergence of a Muslim individual
 
259
(1)
 
Privatization of Islam
 
260
(4)
 
Islam as a new form of citizenship
 
264
(1)
 
The Islamization of European political cultures
 
265
(3)
 
Pluralism as an issue
 
268
(3)
Index
 
271