Orientalism, postmodernism, and globalism /
This book represents a remarkable synthesis of recent discussion and debate regarding crucial aspects of postmodernization, religious change and the globalization of world society.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1994.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0203297849 9780203297841 0203427254 9780203427255 9780415108621 0415108624 9780415108614 0415108616 9786610156849 6610156840 1138147435 9781138147430 1280156848 9781280156847 1134839413 9781134839414 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Orientalism, postmodernism and religion; Orientalism and the problem of civil society in Islam; Accounting for the Orient; Conscience in the construction of religion; Gustave von Grunebaum and the mimesis of Islam; Politics and culture in Islamic globalism; From orientalism to global sociology; The concept of 'the world' in sociology; Nostalgia, postmodernism and the critique of mass culture; Two faces of sociology: global or national?; Ideology and utopia in the formation of an intelligentsia; From regulation to risk.