Muslims as Actors by Jacques Waardenburg
This book deals with Islamic studies and with the question how the scholarly study of religion can contribute to the study of Islam. The author advocates studying Islamic phenomena as signs and symbols interpreted and applied in diverse ways in existing traditions. He stresses the role of Muslims as actors in the ongoing debate about the articulation of Islamic ways of life and construction of Islam as a religion. A careful study of this debate should steer clear of political, religious, and ideological interests. Research in this area by Muslims and non-Muslim scholars alike should address the question of what Muslims have made of their Islam in specific circumstances. Current political contexts have created an unhealthy climate for pursuing an open approach to Islam based on reading, observing, listening and reflecting. Yet, precisely nowadays we need to look anew at ways of Muslim thinking and acting that refer to Islam and to avoid certain schemes of interpreting Muslim realities that are no longer adequate for present-day Muslim life situations. Muslim recourses to Islam can be studied as human constructions of value and meaning, and relations between Muslims and others can be seen in terms of human interaction, without blame always falling on Islam as such.-
The Apprentice Mystics
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Devotion and Artifice
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The Poimandres as Myth
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The Study of Religion and its Meaning
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Integrative Religious Education in Europe
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Comparing Religions: A Limitative Approach
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Reflections on the Study of Religion
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Interpretation and Dionysos
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How to do Comparative Religion?
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Religion in Primitive Cultures
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Principles of Integral Science of Religion
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On Understanding Islam
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Struggles of Gods
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Interpretive Theories of Religion
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Vision, Tradition, Interpretation
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Mapping Islamic Studies
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The Critical Theory of Religion. The Frankfurt School
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Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches
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Self and Non-Self in Early Buddhism
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Science of Religion. Studies in Methodology
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Marxist-Leninist 'Scientific Atheism' and the Study of Religion and Atheism in the USSR
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Structure and Creativity in Religion
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Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought
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Category Formation and the History of Religions
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Karl Barth's Christology
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Christologies and Cultures
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Exploring Methods and Positions
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To the Things Themselves
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Religion and Truth
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The Social Sciences
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The Humanities
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Conscience and the Reality of God
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Religious Harmony
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The Cardinal Meaning
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Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches
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Bibliography
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Ascetic Figures before and in Early Buddhism
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Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine
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Structuralism and the Biblical Text
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No Bosses, No Gods
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Intentional Transformative Experiences
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From Deprived to Revived
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Deep History, Secular Theory
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Aesthetics of Religion
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Sign, Method and the Sacred
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Augustine's Theory of Signs, Signification, and Lying
"The author not so much deals with Islamic theology and philosophy as such but puts his main emphasis on the rigth way to study Islam with its many aspectsHe succeded in outlining a viable methodology, for which may will be grateful."Jan Slomp in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 1-2/2009
Jacques Waardenburg, UniversitéLausanne, Switzerland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783110191424 |
| ISBN 10 | 3110191423 |
| Title | Muslims as Actors |
| Author | Jacques Waardenburg |
| Series | Religion And Reason |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Year published | 2007-10-23 |
| Number of pages | 488 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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