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Book Synopsis Routledge Revivals: The Challenge of Islam (2005) by : Douglas Pratt
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: The Challenge of Islam (2005) written by Douglas Pratt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005, this book addresses the challenges arising from Christian-Muslim encounter and attempts to enable outsiders to understand the religion of Islam. The author offers distinctive perspectives that compliment much other literature in the study of Islam and in particular Christian-Muslim relations and the relation of Islam and the west. The book is divided into three parts: Part I constitutes an introduction to Islam, Part II delves into aspects of the wider encounter with Islam and Part III explores issues in regard to the prospect of engaging in dialogue with Islam. The author argues that in the post-9/11 world the imperative to understand and engage with Islam is urgent and intends this work to assist the reader in doing so.
Book Synopsis The History of Islam by : Terence Lovat
Download or read book The History of Islam written by Terence Lovat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies philosophical and critical textual scholarship to the traditional Islamic narrative in an attempt to distinguish between its historical and interpretive elements. It allows the narrative to be preserved with due respect for its significance and distinctiveness, but in a way that frees it from the ease with which it can slip into the hands of literalists and fundamentalists in order to serve a purpose which is at odds with its original spirit and intention. When radical Islamists use social media to try and convert young followers to a Jihadist cause, they refer often to the narrative about the Prophet, the original Islamic community (Ummah), and the holy book (Qur’an). The references usually imply that these are under threat by infidels, either non-Muslim Westerners or Muslims themselves who follow allegedly errant forms of Islam. The narrative itself is, however, never questioned; it is taken as merely factual with every word to be taken literally, including words that appear intolerant of difference and given to violence. As such, it can serve well the forms of fundamentalism that lie at the heart of radical Islamism and Jihadism. Because of a shortage of critical scholarship about Islam’s central narrative, the radical Islamist understanding of it differs too little from that of mainstream Muslims. Neither tends to take sufficient account of the context of the writing, its original purpose or the many interpretive elements that have been overlain. This makes it difficult for mainstream Islamic authorities to counter effectively the radical Islamist discourse or to distinguish moderate and liberal forms of religious practice from radical breakaway forms. In turn, this causes confusion among Muslims, who know the radical Islamists are in error but find it hard to say just why, and even greater confusion and angst among non-Muslims, for whom the allegation that all of Islam is inherently violent and to be feared is clearly being heard by an increasing number. This book sets out to address this problem by applying forms of scholarship that can preserve the best of the Islamic narrative while, at the same time, illustrating just how errant is the radical Islamist understanding of it.
Book Synopsis Religion and Extremism by : Douglas Pratt
Download or read book Religion and Extremism written by Douglas Pratt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Douglas Pratt argues that despite a popular focus on Islam, extremist Jews and Christians can also enact terror and destruction. Religion and Extremism stresses that the ideological rejection of diversity underlies religious extremism resulting in violent behaviours and, increasingly, in hardening social and religious attitudes and responses. An analysis of religiously-driven terrorism reveals the presence of a distinctive and rigid form of exclusivity found in these religions. In this regard, the contemporary resurgence in totalising claims of fundamentalist ideologues is cause for particular concern. Pratt reasons that however expressed, the motif of the 'Absolute' is central to all, but how that absolute is and has been received, interpreted and responded to, is a matter of great diversity. The author asserts that theological 'Absolutism' displays an underlying dynamic whereby these three religions may be led into extremism. Religion and Extremism also explores contemporary issues of Islamophobia and mutual extremism, identified as 'reactive co-radicalization', and concludes by reflecting on how extremism today might be countered.
Book Synopsis Religion and Identity in Modern Russia by : Marietta Stepaniants
Download or read book Religion and Identity in Modern Russia written by Marietta Stepaniants and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the roles of Russian Orthodoxy and Islam in constituting, challenging and changing national and ethnic identities in Russia, this study takes Tsarist and Soviet legacies into account, paying special attention to the evolution of the relationship between religious teachings and political institutions through the late 19th and 20th centuries. The volume explicitly discusses and compares the role of Russia's two major religions, Orthodoxy and Islam, in forging identity in the modern era and brings an innovative blend of sociological, historical, linguistic and geographic scholarship to the problem of post-Soviet Russian identity. This comprehensive volume is suitable for courses on post-Soviet politics, Russian studies, religion and political culture.
Book Synopsis Theological Issues in Christian-Muslim Dialogue by : Charles Tieszen
Download or read book Theological Issues in Christian-Muslim Dialogue written by Charles Tieszen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theological Issues in Christian-Muslim Dialogue addresses the main theological topics of discussion that appear in Christian-Muslim engagement. Many of these topics originate in the medieval period and the earliest encounters between Christians and Muslims. Even so, the topics persist in contemporary contexts of dialogue and engagement. Christians and Muslims still discuss whether or not God should be understood as strictly one or as a Trinity-in-Unity, and debates over the nature of revelation or prophethood remain. Theological reflection, therefore, must continue to be brought to bear on these topics in light of their history and in view of their applicability to growing contexts of inter-religious engagement. Theological Issues in Christian-Muslim Dialogue is a comprehensive theological sourcebook for students learning about Christian-Muslim relations and practitioners engaged in Christian-Muslim dialogue.
Download or read book World Christianity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Christianity publications proliferate but the issue of methodology has received little attention. World Christianity: Methodological Considerations addresses this lacuna and explores the methodological ramifications of the World Christianity turn. In twelve chapters scholars from various academic backgrounds (anthropology, religious studies, history, missiology, intercultural studies, theology, and patristics) as well as of multiple cultural and national belongings investigate methodological issues (e.g. methods, use of sources, choosing a unit of analysis, terminology, conceptual categories,) relevant to World Christianity debates. In a closing chapter the editors Frederiks and Nagy converge the findings and sketch the outlines of what they coin as a ‘World Christianity approach’, a multidisciplinary and multiple perspective approach to study Christianity/ies’ plurality and diversity in past and present.
Book Synopsis Islam: a challenge to religion by : Ghulam Ahmad Parwez
Download or read book Islam: a challenge to religion written by Ghulam Ahmad Parwez and published by . This book was released on with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization: An Interdisciplinary Approach by : Gabriele Marranci
Download or read book Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization: An Interdisciplinary Approach written by Gabriele Marranci and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from various disciplines worked together to present the first interdisciplinary book to address the issue of Islam, secularism and globalization. The book has a clear structure which represents its interdisciplinary approach: the first section addresses the philosophical and historical discussion about Islam and secularism; the second section discusses the topic from an ethnographical and social anthropological viewpoint; and the final section addresses Islam, secularism and globalization from a political viewpoint. This unique collection not only offers innovative research and new material, it also provides empirical examples and theoretical debates, and could therefore also be used as a textbook for courses on Islam, globalization, anthropology, politics, sociology and law.
Book Synopsis Muslim Spaces of Hope by : Richard Phillips
Download or read book Muslim Spaces of Hope written by Richard Phillips and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates about contemporary Islam and Muslims in the West have taken some negative turns in the depressing atmosphere of the war on terror and its aftermath. This book argues that we have been too preoccupied with problems, not enough with solutions. The increased mobilisation and scrutiny of Muslim identities has taken place in the context of a more general recasting of racial ideas and racism: a shift from overtly racial to ostensibly ethnic and cultural including religious categories within discourses of social difference. The targeting of Muslims has been associated with new forms of an older phenomenon: imperialism. New divisions between Muslims and others echo colonial binaries of black and white, colonised and coloniser, within practices of divide and rule. This book speaks to others who have been marginalised and colonised, and to wider debates about social difference, oppression and liberation.
Book Synopsis Christian Engagement with Islam by : Douglas Pratt
Download or read book Christian Engagement with Islam written by Douglas Pratt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Christian Engagement with Islam: Ecumenical Journeys since 1910, Douglas Pratt discusses the work of the WCC and the Vatican, Africa’s PROCMURA, ‘Building Bridges’, and the German ‘Christian-Muslim Theological Forum’, together with responses to the ‘Common Word’ letter of 2007.
Book Synopsis The Challenge of Islam by : Altaf Gauhar
Download or read book The Challenge of Islam written by Altaf Gauhar and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West by : Roberto Tottoli
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West written by Roberto Tottoli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam has long been a part of the West in terms of religion, culture, politics and society. Discussing this interaction from al-Andalus to the present, this Handbook explores the influence Islam has had, and continues to exert; particularly its impact on host societies, culture and politics. Highlighting specific themes and topics in history and culture, chapters cover: European paradigms Muslims in the Americas Cultural interactions Islamic cultural contributions to the Western world Western contributions to Islam Providing a sound historical background, from which a nuanced overview of Islam and Western society can be built, the Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West brings to the fore specific themes and topics that have generated both reciprocal influence, and conflict. Presenting readers with a range of perspectives from scholars based in Europe, the US, and the Middle East, this Handbook challenges perceptions on both western and Muslim sides and will be an invaluable resource for policymakers and academics with an interest in the History of Islam, Religion and the contemporary relationship between Islam and the West.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research by : Alex Peter Schmid
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research written by Alex Peter Schmid and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a monumental collection of definitions, conceptual frameworks, paradigmatic formulations, and bibliographic sources, which is now being revised and updated as a resource for the expanding community of researchers on the subject of terrorism.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research by : Alex P. Schmid
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research written by Alex P. Schmid and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new Handbook synthesises more than two decades of scholarly research, and provides a comprehensive overview of the field of terrorism studies. The content of the Handbook is based on the responses to a questionnaire by nearly 100 experts from more than 20 countries as well as the specific expertise and experience of the volume editor and the various contributors. Together, they guide the reader through the voluminous literature on terrorism, and propose a new consensus definition of terrorism, based on an extensive review of existing conceptualisations. The work also features a large collection of typologies and surveys a wide range of theories of terrorism. Additional chapters survey terrorist databases and provide a guide to available resources on terrorism in libraries and on the Internet. It also includes the most comprehensive World Directory of Extremist, Terrorist and other Organizations associated with Guerrilla Warfare, Political Violence, Protest and Organized- and Cyber-Crime. The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research will be an essential work of reference for students and researchers of terrorism and political violence, security studies, criminology, political science and international relations, and of great interest to policymakers and professionals in the field of counter-terrorism.
Book Synopsis Modern Challenges to Islamic Law by : Shaheen Sardar Ali
Download or read book Modern Challenges to Islamic Law written by Shaheen Sardar Ali and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers unique insights into Islamic law, considering its theoretical perspectives alongside its practical application in daily Muslim life.
Download or read book Islam written by Patrick Sookhdeo and published by Isaac Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Muslims' Greatest Challenge by : Omar M. Ramahi
Download or read book Muslims' Greatest Challenge written by Omar M. Ramahi and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-22 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to find why Muslims are in conflict with them-selves, why Muslims have been living in an intellectual isolation and intellectual vacuum. This book is an attempt to find why Islam, as embodied in the Mushaf, calls for a sharply different norms than those adopted by the majority of Muslims.
