What 1.3 billion Muslims really think : an answer to a recent Gallup study, based on the World Values Survey / Arno Tausch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tausch, Arno, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Attitudes.

Muslims.

Islam--21st century.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (621 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is based on the quantitative, multivariate analysis of the World Values Survey data from more than 80 countries around the globe on the political and social values of the world's Muslim communities by international comparison. Global Muslims and also the Muslim communities in Western democracies are value-conservative, family-oriented, but supportive of democracy. This study takes up the idea of "Asabiyya" ("social cohesion"), inherent in classic Arab historiography, first described by Ibn Chaldun (1332 to 1406) in his important work "Muqaddimah". Is "moderinzation" without "spiritual values" possible in the long run? As a way out from the modernization trap of societies, characterized by large-scale social anomaly, the "active society" of volunteer organization work is the best societal medicine against this kind of value decay, which is so common in countries like France, Brazil, or most of East Central Europe and the former USSR. An active form of religious or non-religious humanism, which provides a noble motivation for such activities as volunteer social services, is a very necessary precondition for social cohesion in the 21st Century.

Contents:

Amitai Etizoni on Islam

Anti-Enlightenment prejudice in a nutshell : the covenant of the Islamic resistance movement

Hamas

Inglehart and the consequences : Islam on the map of global value changes

a first assessment

Euro-Islam and Europe's leading culture : 6.6 million homophobes among 229 million tax evaders?

The global protest potential against the "Washington consensus" (=liberal market economy + liberal democracy + sexual permissiveness + secularization)

Another look at Asabiyya : the social cohesion of society

The northward migration of global intolerance and the global tolerance index

Simon Kuznets revisited : the U-shaped tradeoff between tolerance and development

Active society, tolerance and development : the cross-national evidence

"Who are we"? : a factor analysis of global value differences

By way of conclusion : how much secularization is necessary, and how much secularization is recommendable?

Analysis of WVS data : methodological notes on sample size, error probability, sample composition, et cetera

What the Gallup booklet unfortunately does not tell you : what Muslims really think

the data from the World Values Survey, with a full documentation and the original SPSS XIV/XV tables, and the most important survey results for the Muslim global sample from the World Values Survey

IBN Khaldoun revisited : a factor analytical model of central World Values Survey indicators

The active society index

Islam and Enlightenment : the possible way ahead

a quantitative view ; the cross-national determinants of economic growth, the active society, global tolerance, traditional values, the intransparent society and Asabiyya

Mapping the world civilizations : is Islam compatible with Enlightenment? A factor analytical model

Secularization

how much? Some further materials on the Scylla and Charybdis on the path to modernization and the governance of value change

Muslims are no security risk in a multicultural Europe : a World Values Survey comparison of European Union, EEA and EFTA country opinions on major issues and social realities by the major religious groups in Europe.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 528-579) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61728-598-6

OCLC:

662460539