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Are Muslims Distinctive?: A Look at the Evidence - Couverture souple

Fish, M. Steven

 
9780199769216: Are Muslims Distinctive?: A Look at the Evidence
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0199769214 ISBN 13 : 9780199769216
Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2011

Synopsis

How, if at all, do Muslims and non-Muslims differ? The question spurs spirited discussion among people the world over, in Muslim and non-Muslim lands alike, but we still lack answers based on sound empirical evidence. This book engages a set of the biggest issues using rigorous methods and data drawn from around the globe. It reveals that in some areas Muslims and non-Muslims differ less than is commonly imagined, and shows that Muslims are not unusually religious or inclined to favor the fusion of religious and political authority. Nor are Muslims especially prone to mass political violence. Yet in some areas Muslims and non-Muslims diverge: Gender inequality is more severe among Muslims, Muslims are unusually intolerant of homosexuality and other controversial behaviors, and democracy is rare in the Muslim world. Other areas of divergence bear the marks of a Muslim advantage: Violent crime and class-based inequities are less severe among Muslims than non-Muslims.

Committed to discovering social facts rather than either stoking prejudices or stroking political sensibilities, Are Muslims Distinctive? represents the first major scientific effort to assess how Muslims and non-Muslims differ--and do not differ--in the contemporary world. Its findings have vital implications for human welfare, interfaith understanding, and the foreign policies of the United States and other Western countries.

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À propos de l'auteur

M. Steven Fish is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as a Senior Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Airlangga University in Indonesia and the European University at St. Petersburg in Russia. His books include The Handbook of National Legislatures (coauthored with Matthew Kroenig) and Democracy Derailed in Russia.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199769214
ISBN 13 
9780199769216
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
385
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