Lifeworlds of Islam: The Pragmatics of a Religion Mohammed A. Bamyeh

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• ISBN 10: 019094224X
• ISBN 13: 9780190942243
• Author: Mohammed A. Bamyeh

How do old ideas continue to appear relevant in a modern world? A sociological approach to Islam allow us to approach an answer to this question. In Lifeworlds of Islam, Mohammed A. Bamyeh shows that Islam has typically operated not in the form of standard dogmas, but more often as a compass for practical individual orientations or “lifeworlds.” Through a comprehensive sociological analysis of Islam, he maps out how Muslims have employed the faith to foster global networks, public philosophies, and engaged civic lives both historically and in the present. Bamyeh further argues that all three fields are poorly understood in recent literature, which tends to focus on one specific problem or another and does not take into account the variety of lifeworlds in which Islam operates. The book contends that the larger preoccupations of ordinary Muslims-how to imagine a global society, how to guide life in the manner of a total philosophy, and how to relate to the world of daily struggles in organized or semi-organized civic forums and social movements-are neither unique to the present period nor to religious life. They are rather shared universal quandaries. A focused empirical lens on the career of a religion, Lifeworlds of Islam contributes to the larger literature and provides insight into the nature of global citizenship, the philosophical needs of individuals, and the ethical values that foster social participation.

Table of contents:

1. Islam as Social Movement: Pragmatics of Participation
From emergency to normal crisis
Social renewal: The long march into normal crisis
Three organizational models
Mutual aid
Society organizing outside the state
The politicization of new demographics
Partial politics
How reaching state power transforms the movement
2. Islam as Public Philosophy: Pragmatics of Knowledge
The secular question
Roots of the secular question: The modern state
The national question and religion
From religion to nationalism and back
Instrumental reason versus hermeneutics
Hermeneutic Islam
3. Islam as Global Order: Pragmatics of Historical Structures
Partial control
Free movement
Heteroglossia
Heteroglossia versus inquisition
Modern inquisitions
Global order beyond Islam
Conclusion: Islam as Reserve Discourse
Living religion
How social logic emerges out of metaphysics
Consensus and compromise
Elements of reserve discourse

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