Saïd Amir Arjomand
1) Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam 7)
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1. Aufl.
Description
The articles included in this Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam are focused on two perspectives: Some link the comparative analysis of Islam to ongoing debates on the Axial Age and its role in the formation of major civilizational complexes, while others are more concerned with the historical constellations and sources involved in the formation of Islam as a religion and a civilization.More than any other particular line of inquiry, new historical...
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the 'legal' as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who suggest that the subfield is dying and advocate a reintegration of legal anthropology into a renewed general anthropology. Chapters by anthropologists, sociologists,...