| Description |
vi, 143 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Modernity and Foundations -- Modernity, Foundations, and Normativity -- Pre-Modernity and Legitimation -- The Post-Modern Challenge to Modernity and the Limits of the Enlightenment -- The Dilemma behind the Rhetoric of Post-Modernism -- Modernity beyond Enlightenment and Post-Modernism -- 2. Modernity and Secular Culture -- Modernity and Philosophy -- Modernity and the Institutions of Right -- Modernity and Fine Art -- 3. Modernity and Religion -- The Generic Nature of Religion -- Rational Agency and the Fundamental Ways of Construing Divinity -- Religion and Property Rights -- Religion and Morality -- Religion and Household Rights -- Religion and Civil Society -- Religion and Self-Government -- The Internal Imperative for Religious Reformation -- Religion and Modernization -- 4. Modernity and the Post-Colonial Condition -- The Problem of Post-Colonialism -- The Dual Character of Emergent Modernity -- The Globalizing Tendencies of Emergent Modernity -- Modernity and the Logic of Colonialism -- Principles of the Post-Colonial Predicament -- Islam and the Post-Colonial Predicament -- 5. Islam and Modernity -- The Liberating Promise of Islam -- The Life of Muhammad and the Specter of the Caliphate -- Islam, the Post-Colonial Condition, and Islamist Reaction -- National Revolution and the Modernization of Islam -- Modernization and the Religious Reformation of Islam |
| Summary |
"The war on terror cannot be truly understood without investigating the legitimacy of modernity, the challenge that religion presents to modernization, the inescapable conflicts attending the emergence and expansion of modernity, and the post-colonial predicament from which Islamist reaction arises. Richard Dien Winfield illuminates the war on terror in light of these issues, presenting an anti-foundationalist justification of the rationality and freedom of modernity, while assessing how religion can stand in opposition to modernity and why Islam has been a privileged vehicle of anti-modern religious revolt."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-138) and index |
| Subject |
Religion and civilization.
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Modernism (Christian theology)
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Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
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Modernist-fundamentalist controversy.
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Islamic fundamentalism.
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Islam and secularism.
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Terrorism -- Religious aspects.
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Postcolonialism -- Islamic countries.
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| LC no. |
2007004391 |
| ISBN |
9780754660569 hardback |
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0754660567 hardback |
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