Global Halal An International Conference on Muslims and the Cultural Politics of the Permissible February 19-21, 2015 Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan Global Halal is an international conference organized by the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University in partnership with the UK-based Muslim, Trust and Cultural Dialogue Program. The conference topic addresses a … Cfp: Global Halal
Religion and Immigration: Migrant Faiths in North America and Western Europe Peter Kivisto ISBN: 978-0-7456-4170-6 206 pages August 2014, Polity http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745641709,subjectCd-CU20.html Description This concise book provides readers with a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the key issues and varied strands of research relating to immigration and religion that have been produced during the past … New Book: Religion and Immigration
Sociology of Islam Journal A Special Issue on the Gülen Movement Volume 1, Issue 3-4, 2014 http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/22131418/1/3-4 Perspectives on the Gülen Movement Authors: Gary Wood ; Tugrul Keskin, pp 127 –130 Approaching a Sociology of Fethullah Gülen Author: Joshua D. Hendrick, pp 131 –144 “Is Hizmet Liberal?” Mediations and Disciplines of Islam and Liberalism among … Sociology of Islam: Special Issue on the Gulen Movement
The Awakening of Muslim Democracy Religion, Modernity, and the State Jocelyne Cesari Cambridge University Press, April 2014 http://www.cambridge.org/hn/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/middle-east-government-politics-and-policy/awakening-muslim-democracy-religion-modernity-and-state Why and how did Islam become such a political force in so many Muslim-majority countries? In this book, Jocelyne Cesari investigates the relationship between modernization, politics, and Islam in Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, … New Book: The Awakening of Muslim Democracy
Giorgio Shani (2014) Religion, Identity and Human Security Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-415-50906-0 Religion, Identity and Human Security seeks to demonstrate that a major source of human insecurity comes from the failure of states around the world to recognize the increasing cultural diversity of their populations which has resulted from globalization. Shani begins by setting … New Book: Religion, Identity and Human Security
Politics and Religion Journal New Issue Volume VIII (No. 1) – Spring 2014 Table of Contents TERRORISM FROM THE VIEW OF MUSLIMS Labeed Ahmed Bsoul Classical and Contemporary Muslim Juridical Views of Terrorism Yousef M. Aljamal Hamas: Terrorism Organization or Liberation Movement? Abd al – Fattah M. El – Awaisi A Muslim Model for Peaceful … ‘Politics and Religion Journal’ special issue on ‘Terrorism from the View of Muslims’
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics Editor-in-chief: Emad El-Din Shahin, Editorial board member: Peri J. Bearman, Editorial board member: Sohail H. Hashmi, Editorial board member: Khaled Keshk, and Editorial board member: Joseph A. Kechichian OUP USA 1248 pages | 254x178mm 978-0-19-973935-6 | Hardback | 27 February 2014 The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics … New Book: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics
Global Religious Movements Across Borders: Sacred Service Edited by Stephen M. Cherry and Helen Rose Ebaugh Ashgate, 2014 Series : Ashgate Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409456872 From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through religious diasporas, religion has traveled from one side of the world and back again. It … New Book: Global Religious Movements Across Borders
Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism At Home and in the World Ali Mirsepassi and Tadd Graham Fernée Cambridge University Press, 2014 http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/middle-east-government-politics-and-policy/islam-democracy-and-cosmopolitanism-home-and-world This book presents a critical study of citizenship, state, and globalization in societies that have been historically influenced by Islamic traditions and institutions. Interrogating the work of contemporary theorists of Islamic modernity such as … New Book: Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism
A special issue of Religion, State and Society (2013, Volume 41, Issue 3) on “Religion, the Russian Nation and the State: Domestic and International Dimensions”, Table of contents. Edited by Jerry G. Pankhurst (Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio) and Alar Kilp (University of Tartu). The special issue is resulting from selected papers presented at the … Special issue on “Religion, the Russian Nation and the State”.
