The Sociology of Islam

Introduction Bryan S. Turner: Building the Sociology of Islam; Classical Approaches - Understanding Islam; Introduction to Section I Classical Approaches - Understanding Islam, Bryan S. Turner; Chapter 1 Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses; Chapter 2 Origins and Traditions in Islam and Christianity; Chapter 3 State, Science and Economy in Traditional Societies: Some Problems in Weberian Sociology of Science; Chapter 4 Conscience in the Construction of Religion: A Critique of Marshall G.S. Hodgson's The Venture of Islam; Orientalist Debate - Positioning Islam; intro2 Introduction to Section II Orientalist Debate - Positioning Islam, Bryan S. Turner; Chapter 5 Orientalism, Islam and Capitalism; Chapter 6 On the Concept of Axial Space: Orientalism and the Originary; Chapter 7 Orientalism, or the Politics of the Text; Chapter 8 Leibniz, Islam and Cosmopolitan Virtue; Islam Today - Sociological Perspectives; intro3 Introduction to Section III Islam Today - Sociological Perspectives, Bryan S. Turner; Chapter 9 Sovereignty and Emergency: Political Theology, Islam and American Conservatism; Chapter 10 Class, Generation and Islamism: Towards a Global Sociology of Political Islam; Chapter 11 Religious Authority and the New Media; Chapter 12 Women, Piety and Practice: A Study of Women and Religious Practice in Malaysia, Joy Kooi-Chin Tong, Bryan S. Turner; Chapter 13 The Body and Piety: The Hijab and Marriage, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Alexius Pereira, Bryan S. Turner; Chapter 14 Islam, Diaspora, and Multiculturalism; Chapter 15 Shari'a and Legal Pluralism in the West, Bryan S. Turner, Berna Zengin Arslan;