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Author:   Professor Bryan S Turner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138147430

ISBN 10:   1138147435
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   22 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Orientalism; Chapter 1 Orientalism, postmodernism and religion; Chapter 2 Orientalism and the problem of civil society in Islam While; Chapter 3 Accounting for the Orient; Part 2 II Orientalists; Chapter 4 Conscience in the construction of religion; Chapter 5 Gustave von Grunebaum and the mimesis of Islam; Part 3 III Globalism; Chapter 6 Politics and culture in Islamic globalism; Chapter 7 From orientalism to global sociology; Chapter 8 The concept of ‘the world’ in sociology; Part 4 IV Intellectuals and postmodernism; Chapter 9 Nostalgia, postmodernism and the critique of mass culture; Chapter 10 The two faces of sociology: global or national?; Chapter 11 Ideology and utopia in the formation of an intelligentsia; Part 5 V Modernity; Chapter 12 From regulation to risk; Chapter 13 The self and reflexive modernity; Chapter 14 Conclusion ReferencesIndex;

Reviews

'... this stimulating and provoking collection of essays which, using various conceptual templates, explores the relationship between critiques of orientalism, postmodernism, and the changing role of intellectuals in an increasingly globalized world. Turner is a fine organizer and sifter of the history of sociological thought' - Ecumene 'His book is interesting and well-written. It makes some provocative points.' - Network, Spring 1995 'For ever challenging and demanding, but also for ever stimulating and gratifying, Bryan Turner's critical reflections on Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism deserves the reader's fullest attention.' - Journal of Islamic Studies

'... this stimulating and provoking collection of essays which, using various conceptual templates, explores the relationship between critiques of orientalism, postmodernism, and the changing role of intellectuals in an increasingly globalized world. Turner is a fine organizer and sifter of the history of sociological thought' - Ecumene 'His book is interesting and well-written. It makes some provocative points.' - Network, Spring 1995 'For ever challenging and demanding, but also for ever stimulating and gratifying, Bryan Turner's critical reflections on Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism deserves the reader's fullest attention.' - Journal of Islamic Studies

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Bryan S.Turner is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Sociology at Deakin University, Australia.

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