Globalized Islam / The Search for a New Ummah - Roy, Olivier
The Search for a New Ummah (The Ceri Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies)
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The spread of Islam around the globe has blurred the connection between a religion, a specific society, and a territory. One-third of the world's Muslims now live as members of a minority. At the heart of this development is, on the one hand, the voluntary settlement of Muslims in Western societies and, on the other, the pervasiveness and influence of Western cultural models and social norms. The revival of Islam among Muslim populations in the last twenty years is often wrongly perceived as a backlash against westernization rather than as one of its consequences. Neofundamentalism has been gaining ground among a rootless Muslim youth--particularly among the second- and third-generation migrants in the West--and this phenomenon is feeding new forms of radicalism, ranging from support for Al Qaeda to the outright rejection of integration into Western society.
In this brilliant exegesis of the movement of Islam beyond traditional borders and its unwitting westernization, Olivier Roy argues that Islamic revival, ...
In this brilliant exegesis of the movement of Islam beyond traditional borders and its unwitting westernization, Olivier Roy argues that Islamic revival, ...
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2004Uitgever: Columbia University Press320 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0231134983ISBN-13: 9780231134989Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2004, hardcover with dust jacket, good copy [Auteur: Roy, Olivier] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Columbia University Press] [Jaar: 2004] [Titel: Globalized Islam / The Search for a New Ummah]
