Overview
- Focuses on the comparative analysis of the application of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities
- Includes revised and updated chapters and broader international focus for this new edition
- Provides case studies in Muslim minority countries such as South Africa, China, Singapore and the Philippines
Part of the book series: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies (BOREFRRERE)
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About this book
This edited collection focuses on the comparative analysis of the application of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities (e.g. USA, Australia, Germany and Italy) and majorities (e.g. Malaysia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Morocco). Most chapters in this new edition have been revised and the book as a whole has been updated to give even more international coverage.
This text provides a sociological and global analysis of a phenomenon that goes beyond the ‘West versus the rest’ dichotomy. One example of this is how included are case studies in Muslim minority countries not exclusively located in the West. Although the contributors of this book come from various disciplines such as law, anthropology, and sociology, this volume has a strong sociological focus on the analysis of Shari’a. The final part of the book indeed draws out from all the case studies explored some ground-breaking theories on the sociology of Shari’a such as the application of Black, Chambliss and Eisenstein’s sociological theories. This text appeals to students and researchers working in the sociology of religion.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Case Studies from Muslim Majority Countries
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Case Studies from Muslim Minority Countries
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Theoretical and Comparative Considerations
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Adam Possamai is professor in Sociology and Deputy Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. He is the (co)author and (co)editor of 20 books, and close to 100 articles and book chapters. He is a former President of Research Committee 22 on the Sociology of Religion from the International Sociological Association, and a former President of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions. His work has been published in English, French, Spanish, Romanian and Slovakian. He was a visiting scholar at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
James T. Richardson, J.D., Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he directed the Judicial Studies graduate degree program for trial judges, and also was a faculty member in the Sociology Department and in the Social Psychology doctoral program. He has published nearly 300 articles and book chapters in his career, mostly about new and minority religious groups, including Islam in western countries. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Rockefeller Fellow, and has been a formal visitor at universities in England, the Netherlands, and Australia. He has made presentations in over 30 countries during his career. He has served as President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and the American Association of University Professors.
Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology at the Australian Catholic University He was the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College (2009-10). His publications in the sociology of religion include Weber and Islam (1974), Religion and Social Theory (1983), (with Kamaludeen and Pereira) Muslims in Singapore (2010) and Religion and Modern Society (2011). He is the foundingeditor of the journal Citizenship Studies and with John O’Neill of the Journal of Classical Sociology. With Anthony Elliot, he published On Society (2012). From 1998-2005 he was professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He edited the Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (2006), and was awarded a doctor of letters by the University in 2009.
James T. Richardson, J.D., Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he directed the Judicial Studies graduate degree program for trial judges, and also was a faculty member in the Sociology Department and in the Social Psychology doctoral program. He has published nearly 300 articles and book chapters in his career, mostly about new and minority religious groups, including Islam in western countries. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Rockefeller Fellow, and has been a formal visitor at universities in England, the Netherlands, and Australia. He has made presentations in over 30 countries during his career. He has served as President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and the American Association of University Professors.
Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology at the Australian Catholic University He was the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College (2009-10). His publications in the sociology of religion include Weber and Islam (1974), Religion and Social Theory (1983), (with Kamaludeen and Pereira) Muslims in Singapore (2010) and Religion and Modern Society (2011). He is the foundingeditor of the journal Citizenship Studies and with John O’Neill of the Journal of Classical Sociology. With Anthony Elliot, he published On Society (2012). From 1998-2005 he was professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He edited the Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (2006), and was awarded a doctor of letters by the University in 2009.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Sociology of Shari’a
Book Subtitle: Case Studies from Around the World
Editors: Adam Possamai, James T. Richardson, Bryan S. Turner
Series Title: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27188-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27187-8Published: 11 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27190-8Published: 28 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27188-5Published: 10 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2214-5281
Series E-ISSN: 2214-529X
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: VI, 361
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Islam, Social Theory