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Situating Islam : the Past and Future of an Academic Discipline.

The formation of any scholarly discourse is contingent upon the creation of a vocabulary and a set of categories responsible for manufacturing the data that it deems "significant" or not. The discovery of raw data, the manufacture of theoretical or interpretive frameworks that make sense o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hughes, Aaron W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Equinox Pub., 2008.
Colección:Religion in Culture: Studies in Social Contest and Construction.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The formation of any scholarly discourse is contingent upon the creation of a vocabulary and a set of categories responsible for manufacturing the data that it deems "significant" or not. The discovery of raw data, the manufacture of theoretical or interpretive frameworks that make sense of such data, and subsequent scholarly conventions responsible for its dissemination are always mediated by particular social, ideological, and political contexts. This book documents these contexts in the creation of the discipline known as Islamic Studies and demonstrates how they have been instrumental in s.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (143 pages).
ISBN:9781845537487
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