Essay on Islamization: Changes in Religious Practice in Muslim Societies

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41293-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Youth in a Globalizing World

Essay on Islamization is a study of the Islamization of all Muslim societies, their conversion to orthodox Islam which, with its chapels, soldier monks and holy war, leads to fundamentalism as well as to a moral puritanism. Cherkaoui gauges the importance of this global phenomenon by analyzing the empirical data of some sixty Muslim and non-Muslim societies. He also conducts two ethnographic surveys to identify the metamorphoses of Muslim religious practices and their causes.

Among the dozen theories put forward to explain these planetary phenomena, he cites those of secularization, modernization, the religious market, the influence of the media and the policy of donors of unlimited financial resources, social mobility, geopolitical causes, the emergence of fundamentalism and the role of "proletarian" intellectuals who promote Messianism, and social pressure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cherkaoui, Mohamed

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hamilton, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Religiöse Institutionen & Gemeinschaften, Klerus, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction

1 Disenchantment of the World, Depopulation of the Heavens
1 Persistence of Faith in Islam Countries, Progress of Atheism Elsewhere
2 Orientation toward the Human or toward the Divine: Progressive Secularization or Resilience of the Religious
Conclusion

2 Time for the Sacred
1 Rising Religiosity
2 The Time of the Sacred and Education
3 Variations in Rates of Practice by Social Determinants
4 Cultual, Media and Cultural Practices
5 Integration, Regulation and Trust

3 Twilight of the Gods
1 The Disenchantment of the World
2 Works and Days: Islam Paganized and Chthonian Beliefs
3 The Paradox of Consequences of Colonization
4 The Political Instrumentalization of Salafism and the Enchanted World

4 Is a Rational Explanation of Islamization Possible?
1 Exogenous Causes
1.1 Socio-Economic Changes Lead to a Secular Decline in Religiosity
1.2 The Religious Market Would Account for the Practices of Believers and Their Intensity of Belief
1.3 The Separation of Church and State Would Influence Religious Practice
1.4 The Extension of Islam Could Be Explained by the Policy Pursued by Certain States with Virtually Unlimited Financial Means
1.5 The Media Have Influenced Muslim Public Opinion
1.6 The Muslim Is Searching for His Identity, His Belonging and Reference Groups
2 Endogenous Explanations
2.1 The Relative Deprivation of Young People Is the Cause of This Popular Enthusiasm for Islam and for Their Proselytism
2.2 The Perception that Muslims Have of Themselves and Others Is a Reflection of Both the Spread of Islam and Their Zeal
2.3 The Transformations of the Social Morphology of Muslim Countries, the End of Popular Islam and the Growing Domination of Scriptural Islam, Could Be Causes of This Green Tidal Wave
2.4 The Structures of Interaction and Interdependence Explain the Diffusion of Religious Practices

5 Deprivation and Islamization: Socio- Educational Mobility and Its Consequences
1 Social Mobility and Educational Mobility
2 Generative Mechanisms of Mobility
3 Meritocracy or Dominance Structure?

6 The Mechanisms that Produce Islamic Fundamentalism: an Outline for an Interpretation of Its Genesis
1 Elective Affinities between Popular Islam and Social Morphology
2 Transformations of Morphology and the Decline of Popular Islam: the Resurgence of Salafism
3 The Prophecy of the “Proletaroid” Intellectuals as a Response to the Crisis of Society
4 Rational Choice Theory and Altruistic Suicide

7 From Absolute Monotheism to Ethical Puritanism
1 The Ethical Puritanism of Muslims and Moral Tolerance In the West
2 Muslims and the Magic of Modernity
Conclusion

8 Confidence in Institutions: an International Comparison
1 Trust as the Basis for the Legitimacy of the Social Order
2 Time of Suspicion

9 Islam and Democracy: Comparative Analysis of Individual and Collective Preferences
1 Morphologies and Democracies
2 The People’s Choice: Democracy or Authoritarianism
3 Taxonomy of Democracies
4 Distribution of Countries according to the Three Models. Place of the Muslims in the Democratic Trihedron

Bibliography
Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

Mohamed Cherkaoui, Ph.D. Sorbonne, is research Director Emeritus Paris, University Professor, former Director of the French Journal of Sociology, and member of the editorial board of several scientific journals. He has published twenty books and a hundred scientific articles. He is a member of the Academia Europeae and European Academy of Sociology.