Muslim History and Social Theory

Dietrich Jung is a Professor and Head of Department at the Center for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark. He holds a MA in Political Science and Islamic Studies, as well as a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg, Germany, and has large field experience in the Muslim world. His most recent books are Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam (2011), and The Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Islam, Youth and Social Activism in the Middle East, together with Marie Juul Petersen and Sara Lei Sparre (New York: Palgrave, 2014).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Searching for Similarities.- Chapter 2: Multiple, Entangled, and Successive Modernities: Putting Modernity in the Plural.- Chapter 3: Functional Differentiation, Theories of Emergence, and World Society: The Macro Level of Modernity.- Chapter 4: Contingency, Modern Subjectivity, and Cultural Types: The Micro Level of Modernity.- Chapter 5: Modernization, Organization, and Global Cultural Scripts: The Meso Level of Modernity.-  Chapter 6: Conclusions: Emerging Global Modernity.