Author:
Turner, Bryan S.
Imprint:New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Descriptionxii, 312 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.
Note:Islam, capitalism and the Weber theses -- Origins and traditions in Islam and Christianity -- State, science and economy in traditional societies: some problems in Weberian sociology of science -- Conscience in the construction of religion: a critique of Marshall G.S. Hodgson's The venture of Islam -- Orientalism, Islam and capitalism -- On the concept of axial space: orientalism and the originary -- Orientalism, or the politics of the text -- Leibniz, Islam and cosmopolitan virtue -- Sovereignty and emergency: political theology, Islam and American conservatism -- Class, generation and Islamism: towards a global sociology of political Islam -- Religious authority and the new media -- Women, piety and practice: a study of women and religious practice in Malaysia -- The body and piety: the Hijab and marriage -- Islam, diaspora and multiculturalism -- Shari'a and legal pluralism in the West.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
