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  • Is Europe Christian?

    by Olivier Roy, Cynthia Schoch ...
    As Europe wrangles over questions of national identity, nativism and immigration, Olivier Roy interrogates the place of Christianity, foundation of Western identity. Do secularism and Islam really pose threats to the continent's 'Christian values'? What will be the fate of Christianity in Europe? Rather than repeating the familiar narrative of decline, Roy challenges the significance of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Crisis of Culture

    Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms

    by Olivier Roy, Cynthia Schoch, Trista Selous ...
    Are we confronting a new culture--global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values? Olivier Roy's new book explains today's fractures via the extension of individual political and sexual freedoms from the 1960s. For Roy, twentieth-century youth culture disconnected traditional political protest from ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The New Aesthetics of Deculturation

    Neoliberalism, Fundamentalism and Kitsch

    by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Olivier Roy ...
    What are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vulgarity of kitsch, is the overriding visual language of our times.Drawing on the work of Islam scholar Olivier Roy, who argued that religious fundamentalism arises when religion is separated from the indigenous cultural values, Botz-Bornstein shows that ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • In Search of the Lost Orient

    An Interview

    by Olivier Roy ...
    Translated by C. Jon Delogu ...
    Olivier Roy is one of the world's leading experts on political Islam. But he is not only a scholar—he is also a traveler. Roy's keen and iconoclastic insights emerge from a lifetime of study combined with intrepid exploration through Afghanistan and Central Asia. In this book-length interview, Roy tells the lively and colorful story of his many adventures and discoveries in a variety of social and ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Holy Ignorance

    When Religion and Culture Part Ways

    by Roy Olivier ...
    Olivier Roy, world-renowned authority on Islam and politics, finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and socio-cultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root, an anti-intellectualism that promises immediate, emotional access to the sacred and ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Tribes and Global Jihadism

    Edited by Virginie Collombier, Olivier Roy ...
    Across the Muslim world, from Iraq and Yemen, to Egypt and the Sahel, new alliances have been forged between the latest wave of violent Islamist groups ---- -including Islamic State and Boko Haram ---- -and local tribes. But can one now speak of a direct link between tribalism and jihadism, and how analytically useful might it be? Tribes are traditionally thought to resist all encroachments upon ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Holy Ignorance

    When Religion and Culture Part Ways

    by Roy Olivier ...
    Olivier Roy, world-renowned authority on Islam and politics, finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and socio-cultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root, an anti-intellectualism that promises immediate, emotional access to the sacred and ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Jihad and Death

    The Global Appeal of Islamic State

    by Olivier Roy ...
    How has Islamic State been able to muster support far beyond its initial constituency in the Arab world and attract tens of thousands of foreign volunteers, including converts to Islam, and seemingly countless supporters online? In this compelling intervention into the debate about Islamic State's origins and future prospects, the renowned French political scientist, Olivier Roy, argues that while ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Secularism Confronts Islam

    by Olivier Roy ...
    Translated by George Holoch ...
    The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French-and, consequently, secular and liberal-society. However, as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Arab Society in Revolt

    The West's Mediterranean Challenge

    Edited by Cesare Merlini, Olivier Roy ...
    For every pithy conceptualization of complex events, there are additional lenses through which to examine them. One of the several virtues of this book is precisely that it brings different perspectives to bear on the complexity, diversity, and uncertainty of recent and current events in the Arab world. The thirteen authors concentrate on the critical social forces shaping the region-demography, ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • The Revival of Islam in the Balkans

    From Identity to Religiosity

    Edited by Olivier Roy, Arolda Elbasani ...
    Series series Islam and Nationalism
    This book shifts analytical focus from macro-politicization and securitization of Islam to Muslims' choices, practices and public expressions of faith. An empirically rich analysis, the book provides rich cross-country evidence on the emergence of autonomous faith communities as well as the evolution of Islam in the broader European context. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Religious Diversity in European Prisons

    Challenges and Implications for Rehabilitation

    Edited by Irene Becci, Olivier Roy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines how prisons meet challenges of religious diversity, in an era of increasing multiculturalism and globalization. Social scientists studying corrections have noted the important role that religious or spiritual practice can have on rehabilitation, particularly for inmates with coping with stress, mental health and substance abuse issues. In the past, the historical figure of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD