A Reflexive Islamic Modernity: Academic Knowledge and Religious Subjectivity in the Global Ismaili Community - Couverture souple
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Nizari Ismailis are one of most active Muslim communities in academic education and knowledge production in the fields of Islamic studies and humanities. For this purpose, the community runs two academic institutions based in London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations. Drawing on sociological approaches to religion and knowledge, this study examines the academic discourse of these two institutes an the religious subjectivities of their international body of students. It shows that the Ismaili community is navigating challenges along three axes: its relationship to secular modernity, to mainstream Islam, and to itself (its own history and identity). The Ismaili response to this three-dimensional challenge is interpreted as a process of reflexive modernization, whereby Islam is discursively reconceptualized as culture rather than religion and uncertainty is internalized into individual religious subjectivity.
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A reflexive Islamic modernity. Academic knowledge and religious subjectivity in the global Ismaili community. Religion in der Gesellschaft Band 47.
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Baden-Baden : Ergon, 2020
ISBN 10 : 3956506367
ISBN 13 : 9783956506369
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Originalbroschur. Etat : Gut. 230 S. Within the context of Islam, Nizari Ismailism is one of the pioneering Muslim communities to invest extensive resources, not only in recovering and studying their religious, historical, and intellectual heritage but also in applying social sciences for various academic and non-academic purposes. They are integrating the methods, discourse, and tools of social science in areas that include, among others, religious education, social and economic development, and training of personnel. The fact that the Nizari Ismaili community is spread over five continents while main-taining an extensive centralized institutional network entails that its leadership has to deal with widely different contexts, which requires knowledge of and sensitivity to social, cultural, and political dynamics. Furthermore, debates involving Islam in Western along with Muslim countries and the politicization of religious identities are affecting Nizari Ismaiks directly. The community, therefore, is dedicating vast resources for the production of academic discourse and the training of an intellectual elite that is immersed in social sciences together with Islamic studies in order to meet the challenges facing Ismailis in this rapidly changing, globalized world. ISBN 9783956506369 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 367. N° de réf. du vendeur 1145352
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