| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Youth in a globalizing world,
2212-9383 ;
volume 10
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Youth in a globalizing world ; v. 10.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Disenchantment of the World, Depopulation of the Heavens -- 2. Time for the Sacred -- 3. Twilight of the Gods -- 4. Is a Rational Explanation of Islamization Possible? -- 5. Deprivation and Islamization: Socio- Educational Mobility and Its Consequences -- 6. The Mechanisms that Produce Islamic Fundamentalism: an Outline for an Interpretation of Its Genesis -- 7. From Absolute Monotheism to Ethical Puritanism -- 8. Confidence in Institutions: an International Comparison -- 9. Islam and Democracy: Comparative Analysis of Individual and Collective Preferences -- Bibliography -- Index Nominum. |
| Summary |
"This book is partially a work of circumstance. It is not the outcome of a wellorganized and complete research programme, but rather, the fruit of specific contingencies of which it bears the visible hallmark. However, the genesis of the problem of "islamization" of Muslim countries, the topics which are secretly tied thereto even though apparently disjointed, the issues discussed and answers I felt able to provide comply with one of the rules of logic in scientific research, namely the coherence of all the components evoked and how they are sequentially interlinked according to the logical order of reasons but not of matters"-- Introduction. |
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"Essay on Islamization is a study of the Islamization of all Muslim societies, their conversion to orthodox Islam which, with its chapels, soldier monks and holy war, leads to fundamentalism as well as to a moral puritanism. Cherkaoui gauges the importance of this global phenomenon by analyzing the empirical data of some sixty Muslim and non-Muslim societies. He also conducts two ethnographic surveys to identify the metamorphoses of Muslim religious practices and their causes. Among the dozen theories put forward to explain these planetary phenomena, he cites those of secularization, modernization, the religious market, the influence of the media and the policy of donors of unlimited financial resources, social mobility, geopolitical causes, the emergence of fundamentalism and the role of "proletarian" intellectuals who promote Messianism, and social pressure."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Mohamed Cherkaoui, Ph.D. Sorbonne, is research Director Emeritus Paris, University Professor, former Director of the French Journal of Sociology, and member of the editorial board of several scientific journals. He has published twenty books and a hundred scientific articles. He is a member of the Academia Europeae and European Academy of Sociology. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Islamic fundamentalism.
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Islamic fundamentalism. |
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Islam and world politics.
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Islam and world politics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cherkaoui, Mohamed. Essay on Islamization. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004412934 (DLC) 2019042653 (OCoLC)1121422193 |
| ISBN |
9789004415034 (electronic book) |
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9004415033 (electronic book) |
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9789004412934 (hardback) |
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