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Overcoming orientalism : essays in honor of John L. Esposito / edited by Tamara Sonn.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious tolerance.
- Orientalism.
- Islamophobia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (376 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 'Overcoming Orientalism' brings together leading scholars of Islam to analyze core elements of Orientalism. The text provides new insights into racialized religion, Islamophobia, and the integral relationship between racism and religious intolerance and presents critical correctives to key elements of Orientalist discourse.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Tamara Sonn
- SHAPING THE DISCOURSE: Countering the Secular Bias: 2. 'After Enlightenment, Return to the Marketplace': The Scholar's Responsibility for a Broken World / Karen Armstrong
- 3. The Secular Bias and the Study of Religious Politics: On John Esposito, Michael Walzer, and Political Islam / Nader Hashemi
- DIVERSITY IN ISLAM: Whose Islam?: 4. The Islamic Reformist Mosaic in Muslim Southeast Asia / Khairudin Aljunied
- 5. Looking for the Caliphate in All the Wrong Places: ISIS and Its Reading of Scripture / Asma Afsaruddin
- 6. How Islamic Is ISIS? / Sohail H. Hashmi
- ISLAM AND PLURALISM: Interfaith Relations: 7. Building Muslim-Buddhist Understanding: The Parallels of Taqwa/Allah Consciousness in the Qur'an and Satipatthana/Mindfulness in Anapanasati Sutta / Imtiyaz Yusuf
- 8. Televangelizing Muslims: Christian Satellite Television and Its Impact on Muslim-Christian Relations in Jordan / Jordan Denari Duffner
- ORIENTALISM 2.0: Islamophobia: 9. The Social Construction of The Racial Muslim / Sahar Aziz
- 10. Anti-Catholicism, Islamophobia, and White Supremacy in the United States / Scott C. Alexander
- 11. Islam and Exceptionalism in the Western Policy Imagination / Peter Mandaville
- 12. Pluralism, Authority, and Islamophobia: Shari'a and Its Discontents in North America / Mohammad Fadel
- John L. Esposito: Select Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-005418-2
- 0-19-005417-4
- OCLC:
- 1227790323
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