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  • Border Crossings

    Toward a Comparative Political Theory

    by Fred Dallmayr, Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Yoko Arisaka, John J. Clarke, Ahmet Davutoglu, Manochehr Dorraj, Roxanne L. Euben, Russell Arben Fox, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Robert C. Johansen, Hwa Yol Jung, L H. M. Ling, Thomas Pantham, Chih-Yu Shih ...
    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    Comparative political theory is at best an embryonic and marginalized endeavor. As practiced in most Western universities, the study of political theory generally involves a rehearsal of the canon of Western political thought from Plato to Marx. Only rarely are practitioners of political thought willing (and professionally encouraged) to transgress the canon and thereby the cultural boundaries of ... Read more

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  • What I Believe

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    Tariq Ramadan is very much a public figure, named one of Time magazine's most important innovators of the twenty-first century. He is among the leading Islamic thinkers in the West, with a large following around the world. But he has also been a lightning rod for controversy. Indeed, in 2004, Ramadan was prevented from entering the U.S. by the Bush administration and despite two appeals, supported ... Read more

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  • Identity and Violence

    The Illusion of Destiny

    by Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    “One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine GordimerIn this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Secularism

    Edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, Jonathan VanAntwerpen ...
    This collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists and scholars representing the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The volume will introduce readers to some of the most compelling new conceptual and theoretical understandings of secularism and the secular, while also examining socio-political ... Read more

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  • Fear of Small Numbers

    An Essay on the Geography of Anger

    by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Michael Warner, Arjun Appadurai, Ph.D. ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civilian populations on ... Read more

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  • Human Rights and Responsibilities in the World Religions

    by Joseph Runzo, Arvind Sharma, Nancy M. Martin ...
    Series series Library of Global Ethics & Religion
    This volume outlines the approaches to human rights and responsibilities within the different world religions. Featuring contributions from over 15 scholars, the book covers such key issues as women's rights, the role of international law, and responsibility for the environment. It also includes a "Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World's Religions", presented at the third Parliament ... Read more

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  • Foucault in Iran

    Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment

    by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi ...
    Series series Muslim International
    Were the thirteen essays Michel Foucault wrote in 1978–1979 endorsing the Iranian Revolution an aberration of his earlier work or an inevitable pitfall of his stance on Enlightenment rationality, as critics have long alleged? Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi argues that the critics are wrong. He declares that Foucault recognized that Iranians were at a threshold and were considering if it were possible to ... Read more

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  • Muslim Worldviews and Everyday Lives

    by El-Sayed el-Aswad ...
    el-Aswad introduces the concepts of worldviews/cosmologies of Muslims, explaining that the different types of worldviews are not constructed solely by religious scholars or intellectual elite, but are latent in Islamic tradition, embedded in popular imagination, and triggered through people's everyday interaction in various countries and communities. He draws from a number of sources including in ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Secularism in International Relations

    by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Conflicts involving religion have returned to the forefront of international relations. And yet political scientists and policymakers have continued to assume that religion has long been privatized in the West. This secularist assumption ignores the contestation surrounding the category of the "secular" in international politics. The Politics of Secularism in International Relations shows why this ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Islam

    Knowledge, Power and Civility

    by Armando Salvatore ...
    The Sociology of Islam provides an accessible introduction to this emerging field of inquiry, teaching and debate. The study is located at the crucial intersection between a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. It discusses the long-term dynamics of Islam as both a religion and as a social, political and cultural force.The volume focuses on ideas of knowledge, power ... Read more

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  • Sexuality in Muslim Contexts

    Restrictions and Resistance

    Edited by Anissa Helie, Homa Hoodfar ...
    This groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization and repression of those, especially women, who do not conform to sexual norms promoted either by the state or by non-state actors. In this context, Islam is often stigmatized in Western discourse for ... Read more

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  • Islam and Secularity

    The Future of Europe's Public Sphere

    by Nilüfer Göle ...
    Series series Public Planet Books
    In Islam and Secularity Nilüfer Göle takes on two pressing issues: the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. Göle shows how the visibility of Islamic practice in the European public sphere unsettles narratives of Western secularism. As mutually constitutive, Islam and secularism permeate each other, the effects of ... Read more

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