The Sociology of Shari’a
Case Studies from Around the World
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Adam Possamai
Social Theory
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Introduction: Legal Pluralism and Shari’a
This introduction situates the book in the current field of research and aims to find some generalizations out of the diversity of legal pluralist practices from around the world.
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Shari’a and Multiple Modernities in Western Countries: Toward a Multi-faith Pragmatic Modern Approach Rather Than a Legal Pluralist One?
The aim of this chapter is to situate the debate on legal pluralism and Shari’a within Eisenstadt’s multiple modernity thesis, and to argue that, to move the matter further, we should work towards a new multi-fai...
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Conclusions: A Global Compassionate Tax for the i-Society
This chapter provides a summary of the arguments presented in the book. It then proposes the creation of a global compassionate tax, that is, a tax on non-charitable dealings by religious organizations. Since ...
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Revising Religious Tax Exemption
This chapter reviews the history and literature on religion and taxes. It discusses recent surveys of the not-for-profit sector and contention over the definition of religion for tax purposes. Since religion h...
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Religions Within Neoliberalism
This chapter addresses how religions, whether or not their adherents want it to be so, are strongly affected by neoliberalism. It concentrates on how religions face new inequalities, exploring the work of fait...
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There Is No Such Thing as a Religion
This chapter questions our past ways of understanding religion and suggests that in the contemporary world, our sociological understanding of religion needs to change and adapt to reflect recent changes. The c...
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Ritzer (2): Standardization and Branding
This chapter continues Chap. 8’s aggiornamento of the key theories of Ritzer, which provided an explication of capitalism at the end of the twentieth century, adap...
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Habermas (2): Neoliberal Post-secularism and the i-zation of Society
This chapter makes the statement that just as religion was the sacred canopy in Middle Ages Europe, and as nationalism and its politics were the dominant civil religion during modernity, today, neoliberalism i...
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Religions Aligned with Neoliberalism
This chapter discusses the explicit involvement of religion in neoliberalism with regard to consumer culture and productivity. It explores religions that are positively engaging with neoliberalism, and details...
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Religious Alternatives to Neoliberalism
This chapter explores various religions that are proposing an alternative view to that of neoliberalism, but does not find in them a strong platform that could lead to significant structural changes. It also r...
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Jameson (1): From Late Capitalism to Digital Capitalism
Chapter 6 (along with Chap. 7) reprises the key theories of Jameson (those of Ritzer are discussed in Chaps. ...
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Ritzer (1): From the McDonaldization Thesis to the i-zation of Society
This chapter (along with Chap. 9) reprises the key theories of Ritzer, which have provided an explication of capitalism at the end of the twentieth century, and ad...
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Habermas (1): A Neoliberal Post-secular Project
This chapter introduces Jurgen Habermas’s project of post-secularism (i.e. the management of communication between religious and atheist groups in the public sphere) and uses Shari’a as a case study to argue t...
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Introduction
This introduction addresses the rapid social and cultural changes brought by new technologies. It then links these changes with neoliberalism and observes that these new technologies are not developed in a cul...
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Jameson (2): From Pastiche to the Pygmalion Process
This chapter continues the previous chapter’s aggiornamento of the key theories of Jameson, which have provided an explication of capitalism at the end of the twentieth century, to adapt them to the present (t...
