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Many Muslim societies are in the throes of tumultuous political
transitions, and common to all has been heightened debate over the
place of sharia law in modern politics and ethical life. Bringing
together leading scholars of Islamic politics, ethics, and law,
this book examines the varied meanings and uses of Islamic law, so
as to assess the prospects for democratic, plural, and
gender-equitable Islamic ethics today. These essays show that,
contrary to the claims of some radicals, Muslim understandings of
Islamic law and ethics have always been varied and emerge, not from
unchanging texts but from real and active engagement with Islamic
traditions and everyday life. The ethical debates that rage in
contemporary Muslim societies reveal much about the prospects for
democratic societies and a pluralist Islamic ethics in the future.
They also suggest that despite the tragic violence wrought in
recent years by Boko Haram and the Islamic State in Iraq, we may
yet see an age of ethical renewal across the Muslim world.
Many Muslim societies are in the throes of tumultuous political
transitions, and common to all has been heightened debate over the
place of sharia law in modern politics and ethical life. Bringing
together leading scholars of Islamic politics, ethics, and law,
this book examines the varied meanings and uses of Islamic law, so
as to assess the prospects for democratic, plural, and
gender-equitable Islamic ethics today. These essays show that,
contrary to the claims of some radicals, Muslim understandings of
Islamic law and ethics have always been varied and emerge, not from
unchanging texts but from real and active engagement with Islamic
traditions and everyday life. The ethical debates that rage in
contemporary Muslim societies reveal much about the prospects for
democratic societies and a pluralist Islamic ethics in the future.
They also suggest that despite the tragic violence wrought in
recent years by Boko Haram and the Islamic State in Iraq, we may
yet see an age of ethical renewal across the Muslim world.
This volume of essays explores the long-unstudied relationship
between religion and human security throughout the world. The 1950s
marked the beginning of a period of extraordinary religious
revival, during which religious political-parties and
non-governmental organizations gained power around the globe. Until
now, there has been little systematic study of the impact that this
phenomenon has had on human welfare, except of a relationship
between religious revival to violence. The authors of these essays
show that religion can have positive as well as negative effects on
human wellbeing. They address a number of crucial questions about
the relationship between religion and human security: Under what
circumstances do religiously motivated actors tend to advance human
welfare, and under what circumstances do they tend to threaten it?
Are members of some religious groups more likely to engage in
welfare-enhancing behavior than in others? Do certain state
policies tend to promote security-enhancing behavior among
religious groups while other policies tend to promote
security-threatening ones? In cases where religious actors are
harming the welfare of a population, what responses could eliminate
that threat without replacing it with another? Religion and Human
Security shows that many states tend to underestimate the power of
religious organizations as purveyors of human security. Governments
overlook both the importance of human security to their populations
and the religious groups who could act as allies in securing the
welfare of their people. This volume offers a rich variety of
theoretical perspectives on the nuanced relationship between
religion and human security. Through case studies ranging from
Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan, to the United States, Northern
Ireland, and Zimbabwe, it provides important suggestions to policy
makers of how to begin factoring the influence of religion into
their evaluation of a population's human security and into programs
designed to improve human security around the globe.
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