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A Secular Age Beyond the West
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

A Secular Age Beyond the West

This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Democracy and Islam in Indonesia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Democracy and Islam in Indonesia

In 1998, Indonesia's military government collapsed, creating a crisis that many believed would derail its democratic transition. Yet the world's most populous Muslim country continues to receive high marks from democracy-ranking organizations. In this volume, political scientists, religious scholars, legal theorists, and anthropologists examine Indonesia's transition compared to Chile, Spain, India, and potentially Tunisia, and democratic failures in Yugoslavia, Egypt, and Iran. Chapters explore religion and politics and Muslims' support for democracy before change.

Human Rights and Reformist Islam
  • Language: en

Human Rights and Reformist Islam

Argues for the compatibility human rights and Islam, focusing on six controversial case studies: religious discrimination; gender discrimination; slavery; freedom of religion; punishment of apostasy; and arbitrary or harsh punishments.

Making Islam Democratic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Making Islam Democratic

This book looks anew at the vexing question of whether Islam is compatible with democracy, examining histories of Islamic politics and social movements in the Middle East since the 1970s.

Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam
  • Language: en

Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-05-22
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  • Publisher: EUP

Reflects on women participating in Islamic scholarly traditions from the classical period to the present

Constitutional and Political Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 449

Constitutional and Political Theory

  • Categories: Law

In this comprehensive edition of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde's definitive work in constitutionalism, law, and politics, readers have access to the legal discourse of one of Germany's leading contemporary theorists and former judge of the federal constitutional court, available in the English language for the first time.

Regulating Religion in Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Regulating Religion in Asia

  • Categories: Law

Examines how law regulates religion and explores the influence of world religions on the legal systems in Asia, including how religion responds to such regulations. It looks at underlying norms influencing state regulation of religion, and the challenges emerging from such regulation.

Women, Leadership, and Mosques
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 601

Women, Leadership, and Mosques

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume is the first to bring together analysis of contemporary female religious leadership in ideologically-diverse Muslim communities in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, with chapters discussing the emergence, consolidation, and impact of female Islamic authority.

Religion, Law, and Democracy
  • Language: en

Religion, Law, and Democracy

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930-2019) was one of Europe's foremost legal scholars and political thinkers. As a scholar of constitutional law and a judge on Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (1983-1996), Böckenförde was a major contributor to contemporary debates in legal and political theory, to the conceptual framework of the modern state and its presuppositions, and to contested political issues such as the constitutional status of the state of emergency, citizenship rights, bioethical politics, and the challenges of European integration. His writings have shaped not only academic but also wider public debates from the 1950s to the present, to an extent that few European scholars...

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 704

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought

"In 2012, the year 1433 of the Muslim calendar, the Islamic population throughout the world was estimated at approximately a billion and a half, representing about one-fifth of humanity. In geographical terms, Islam occupies the center of the world, stretching like a big belt across the globe from east to west."--P. vii.