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Lived Islam - Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition (Paperback)
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Lived Islam - Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition (Paperback)
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Does Islam make people violent? Does Islam make people peaceful? In
this book, A. Kevin Reinhart demonstrates that such questions are
misleading, because they assume that Islam is a monolithic essence
and that Muslims are made the way they are by this monolith. He
argues that Islam, like all religions, is complex and thus best
understood through analogy with language: Islam has dialects, a set
of features shared with other versions of Islam. It also has
cosmopolitan elites who prescribe how Islam ought to be, even
though these experts, depending on where they practice the
religion, unconsciously reflect their own local dialects. Reinhart
defines the distinctive features of Islam and investigates how
modernity has created new conditions for the religion. Analyzing
the similarities and differences between modern and pre-modern
Islam, he clarifies the new and old in the religion as it is lived
in the contemporary world.
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