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Islam Observed (Paperback)
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In four brief chapters, writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, I
have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the
comparative analysis of religion and to apply it to a study of the
development of a supposedly single creed, Islam, in two quite
contrasting civilizations, the Indonesian and the Moroccan.
Mr. Geertz begins his argument by outlining the problem
conceptually and providing an overview of the two countries. He
then traces the evolution of their classical religious styles
which, with disparate settings and unique histories, produced
strikingly different spiritual climates. So in Morocco, the Islamic
conception of life came to mean activism, moralism, and intense
individuality, while in Indonesia the same concept emphasized
aestheticism, inwardness, and the radical dissolution of
personality. In order to assess the significance of these
interesting developments, Mr. Geertz sets forth a series of
theoretical observations concerning the social role of religion.
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