Islam between Culture and Politics

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction: Islam between Culture and Politics — the Scope and Implications....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-27
Religion, Culture and Social Reality: Islam as a Cultural System, and its Diversity....Pages 28-52
Cultural Patterns and the Perception of Change in Islam. A Religious Model for Reality: the Islamic Worldview....Pages 53-68
Culture and Social Change: Tradition and Innovation in Cultural Analysis....Pages 69-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-86
The Dichotomy of Structural Globalisation and Fragmenting Cultural Self-Assertion: the Case of Islamic Civilisation....Pages 87-115
The Politicisation of Religion: Political Islam as a Defensive-Cultural Response to Global Challenges. A Social-Scientific Interpretation....Pages 116-130
From Religious Belief to Political Commitment: the Fundamentalist Revolt against the Secular Order. Between Cultural Modernity and Neo-Absolutism....Pages 131-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-147
Social Change and the Potential for Flexibility in Islamic Law: the Shari’a between Ethics and Politicisation....Pages 148-166
Institutions of Learning and Education in Islam: between the Cultural Accommodation of Change, Religious Orthodoxy and the Politics of Cultural Islamisation....Pages 167-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-190
Islam Matters to the West! Islam and Europe, Islam in Europe: Islamic Migration between Cultural Assimilation, Political Integration and Communitarian Ghettoisation....Pages 191-209
Islam and the West in the Age of Conflict among Civilisations: the Alternative of Intercultural Dialogue as a Means of Conflict Resolution....Pages 210-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-233
September 11, the Global Cultural Turn and the Return of the Sacred in Islamic Civilisation: between Religious Revival and the New Totalitarianism of Political Islam....Pages 234-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-334