Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention
on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the …

Secularizing Islamists? provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the
highly influential Jama 'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama 'at-ud-Da 'wa, widely blamed …

The arrival of new technologies has always presented new challenges and opportunities to
religious communities anchored in scriptural and oral traditions. In the modern period, the …

On the eve of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Asian–African Conference in 2005, Kiai
Haji Abdullah Gymnastiar, the charismatic television preacher known across Indonesia as …

Today, a new breed of charismatic and media‐savvy religious figures are reinvigorating
internal debates on Islam by drawing large audiences across the Muslim world and the …

Автор рассматривает, как в новых условиях «постсекулярного общества» меняется
содержание и функции религии. Он критикует социальных философов (Хабермаса …

This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists.
Basing the book on her long-term fieldwork in the disputed borderlands between Pakistan …

The attacks on the Twin Towers in New York in September 2001 and subsequent events not
only ignited a 'war on terror', but also marked a crucial change in the policies on integration …

The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary
scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture …

The concept of “post-secular society” has emerged in sociological discussion from the
primarily philosophical debate that has followed the work of Jurgen Habermas (2006) on …