Bryan S Turner

Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book represents a remarkable synthesis of recent discussion and debate regarding crucial aspects of postmodernization, religious change and the globalization of world society. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780415108621
• ISBN-10: 0415108624
• Artikelnr.: 20952988

Autorenporträt

Bryan S.Turner is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Sociology at Deakin University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Orientalism
Chapter 1 Orientalism, postmodernism and religion
Chapter 2 Orientalism and the problem of civil society in Islam While
Chapter 3 Accounting for the Orient
Part 2 II Orientalists
Chapter 4 Conscience in the construction of religion
Chapter 5 Gustave von Grunebaum and the mimesis of Islam
Part 3 III Globalism
Chapter 6 Politics and culture in Islamic globalism
Chapter 7 From orientalism to global sociology
Chapter 8 The concept of `the world¿ in sociology
Part 4 IV Intellectuals and postmodernism
Chapter 9 Nostalgia, postmodernism and the critique of mass culture
Chapter 10 The two faces of sociology: global or national?
Chapter 11 Ideology and utopia in the formation of an intelligentsia
Part 5 V Modernity
Chapter 12 From regulation to risk
Chapter 13 The self and reflexive modernity
Chapter 14 Conclusion ReferencesIndex