Sociology of Islam

Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York where he serves as the Director of the Committee on Religion, and he is concurrently the Director of the Centre for Religion and Society at the University of Western Sydney. He was awarded a Doctor of Letters by Cambridge University in 2009 and his latest monograph called Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State appeared in 2011. He is the founding editor of a number of journals (Citizenship Studies, Body & Society and Journal of Classical Sociology) and book series (Muslims in Global Societies and Religion in Contemporary Asia ). Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir received his PhD from the University of Western Sydney in 2011. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the co-author of two books called Muslims as Minorities: History and Social Realities of Muslims in Singapore and Muslims in Singapore: Piety, Politics and Policies. His recent articles include Rethinking the 'Malay Problem' in Singapore: Image, Rhetoric and Social Realities and Poetic Jihadis: Muslim Youth, Hip-Hop and the Homological Imagination.

• 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;

’Bryan Turner took interest in Islam when nobody else did. This collection of timeless essays, some of them classics, shows one of sociology`s broadest minds at the top of his game.’ Christian Joppke, University of Bern, Switzerland ’Bryan Turner’s stunning erudition, lucidity and breadth of vision confirms his stature as one of the leading sociologists of comparative religion writing today. Informative, challenging and polemical, Turner’s depth of understanding of classical sociology, above all Max Weber, is augmented in these essays by his broad reading in philosophy, history and anthropology, ranging across millennia from Indonesia and the Ottoman Empire to Andalusia and modern Europe. His critique of Orientalism adds an important dimension to Edward Said’s textual deconstruction.’ Pnina Werbner, Keele University, UK ’Reading the essays is inspirational as well as enlightening. The volume is strongly recommended to students and researchers focused on a systematic study of Islam in the contemporary world.’ Journal of Islamic Studies