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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781138147430
• ISBN-10: 1138147435
• Artikelnr.: 69945986

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