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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Turner, Bryan S.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.