Islamwissenschaft

Wie wird Religion in muslimischen Familien vermittelt und gelebt? Und welche Rollen spielen andere Sozialisationsinstanzen wie Moscheen, Schulen oder auch die Medien bei der religiösen Erziehung?

Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts verfügen islamistische Bewegungen über ein großes Spektrum an politischen Ideen und Organisationsstrukturen. Der Band verdeutlicht: Der politische Islam wird auch mittelfristig ein wirkmächtiger Teil der Weltpolitik bleiben.

Die Anthologie präsentiert die didaktische Diskussion zum Islamunterricht an öffentlichen Schulen in Deutschland. Ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Versachlichung einer Debatte und zur praktischen Gestaltung von Bildung im Dienste der Integration.

In light of the challenges of globalization, this volume takes a new look at the connections between local and global aspects of Islamic religious practices.

Der Islam ist zum Schlüsselthema in der politischen Wirklichkeit geworden; wie und ob dies die Islamwissenschaft verändert, wird hier diskutiert.

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 and sociological approaches to the Axial Age revived the idea of comparative civilizational analysis and channeled it into more specific projects. A closer look at the very problematic place of Islam in this context will help to clarify questions about the Axial version of civilizational theory as well as issues in Islamic studies and sociological approaches to modern Islam. Contributors among others: Said Arjomand, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Josef van Ess and Raif G. Khoury.

This book takes into view a large variety of Muslim actors who, in recent years, made their entry into the European public sphere. Without excluding the phenomenon of terrorists, it maps the whole field of Muslim visibility. The nine contributions present unpublished ethnographic materials that have been collected between 2003 and 2005. They track down the available space that is open to Muslims in EU member states claiming a visibility of their own. The volume collects male and female, secular and religious, radical and pietistic voices of sometimes very young people. They all speak about »being a Muslim in Europe« and the meaning of »real Islam«.