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Secularism and Religion-Making (Hardcover, New): Markus Dressler, Arvind Mandair Secularism and Religion-Making (Hardcover, New)
Markus Dressler, Arvind Mandair
R2,055 R1,929 Discovery Miles 19 290 Save R126 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, knowledges, and institutions. It investigates how religion is universalized and certain ideas, social formations, and practices rendered "religious" are thus integrated in and subordinated to very particular - mostly liberal-secular - assumptions about the relationship between history, politics, and religion.
The individual contributions, written by a new generation of scholars with decisively interdisciplinary approaches, examine the processes of translation and globalization of historically specific concepts and practices of religion - and its dialectical counterpart, the secular - into new contexts. This volume contributes to the relatively new field of thought that aspires to unravel the thoroughly intertwined relationships between religion and secularism as modern concepts.

Writing Religion - The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam (Hardcover): Markus Dressler Writing Religion - The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam (Hardcover)
Markus Dressler
R2,606 R2,471 Discovery Miles 24 710 Save R135 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Markus Dressler tells the story of how a number of marginalized socioreligious communities, traditionally and derogatorily referred to as Kizilbas (''Redhead''), captured the attention of the late Ottoman and early Republican Turkish nationalists and were gradually integrated into the newly formulated identity of secular Turkish nationalists. In the late 1980s, the Alevis (roughly 15-20% of the population), at that time thought to be mostly assimilated into the secular Turkish mainstream, began to assert their difference as they never had before. As Dressler demonstrates, they began a revitalization and reformation of Alevi institutions and networks, demanded an end to social and institutional discrimination, and claimed recognition as a community distinct from the Sunni majority population. Both in Turkey and in countries with a significant Turkish migrant population, such as Germany, the ''Alevi question,'' which comprises matters of representation and relation to the state, as well as questions of cultural and religious location, has in the last two decades become a matter of public interest. Alevism is often assumed to be part of the Islamic tradition, although located on its margins - margins marked with indigenous terms such as Sufi and Shia, or with outside qualifiers such as 'heterodox' and 'syncretistic.' It is further assumed that Alevism is an intrinsic part of Anatolian and Turkish culture, carrying ancient Turkish heritage back beyond Anatolia and into the depths of the Central Asian Turkish past. Dressler argues that this knowledge about the Alevis, their demarcation as ''heterodox'' but Muslim, and their status as an intrinsic part of Turkish culture, is in fact much more recent. That knowledge can be traced back to the last years of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Turkish Republic, which was the decisive period of the formation of the Turkish nation state. Dressler contends that the Turkish nationalist reading of Alevism emerged as an anti-thesis to earlier Western interpretations. Both the initial Western/Orientalist discovery of the Alevis and their re-signification by Turkish nationalists are the cornerstones of the modern genealogy of the Alevism of Turkey. It is time, according to Dressler, for the origins of the Alevis to be demythologized.

Sufis in Western Society - Global networking and locality (Paperback): Markus Dressler, Ron Geaves, Gritt Klinkhammer Sufis in Western Society - Global networking and locality (Paperback)
Markus Dressler, Ron Geaves, Gritt Klinkhammer
R1,471 Discovery Miles 14 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In recent years Sufism has undergone something of a revival as a spiritual alternative to other manifestations of Islam. This book investigates the development of Sufism in Western societies, with a regional focus on North America and Europe. Exploring a number of issues relating to the dynamic tensions between religious globalization processes and specific sacred localities, this book looks at the formation of Sufi movements that have migrated from their place of origin to become global religious networks. Sufi groups are highly differentiated and often inaccessible, so the origins and development of Sufism in the West have not been widely studied. Employing a comparative approach based on regional fieldwork and case studies, this book addresses theoretical issues and gives a comprehensive analysis of distinct communities and the development of regional branches of Sufi orders, providing an international perspective on Sufism in the West. With contributions from well-known international experts on the topic, the book addresses Sufi orders in the context of the transnational networks in which they are operating and the constraints of the localities in which they live. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of religion, Islam and Sufism in particular.

Sufis in Western Society - Global networking and locality (Hardcover): Markus Dressler, Ron Geaves, Gritt Klinkhammer Sufis in Western Society - Global networking and locality (Hardcover)
Markus Dressler, Ron Geaves, Gritt Klinkhammer
R4,414 Discovery Miles 44 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In recent years Sufism has undergone something of a revival as a spiritual alternative to other manifestations of Islam. This book investigates the development of Sufism in Western societies, with a regional focus on North America and Europe. Exploring a number of issues relating to the dynamic tensions between religious globalization processes and specific sacred localities, this book looks at the formation of Sufi movements that have migrated from their place of origin to become global religious networks. Sufi groups are highly differentiated and often inaccessible, so the origins and development of Sufism in the West have not been widely studied. Employing a comparative approach based on regional fieldwork and case studies, this book addresses theoretical issues and gives a comprehensive analysis of distinct communities and the development of regional branches of Sufi orders, providing an international perspective on Sufism in the West. With contributions from well-known international experts on the topic, the book addresses Sufi orders in the context of the transnational networks in which they are operating and the constraints of the localities in which they live. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of religion, Islam and Sufism in particular.

Writing Religion - The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam (Paperback): Markus Dressler Writing Religion - The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam (Paperback)
Markus Dressler
R1,219 Discovery Miles 12 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the late 1980s, the Alevis, at that time thought to be largely assimilated into the secular Turkish mainstream, began to assert their difference as they never had before. The question of Alevism's origins and its relation to Islam and to Turkish culture became a highly contested issue. According to the dominant understanding, Alevism is part of the Islamic tradition, although located on its margins. It is further assumed that Alevism is intrinsically related to Anatolian and Turkish culture, carrying an ancient Turkish heritage, leading back into pre-Islamic Central Asian Turkish pasts. Dressler argues that this knowledge about the Alevis-their demarcation as "heterodox" but Muslim and their status as carriers of Turkish culture-is in fact of rather recent origins. It was formulated within the complex historical dynamics of the late Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Turkish Republic in the context of Turkish nation-building and its goal of ethno-religious homogeneity.

Secularism and Religion-Making (Paperback, New): Markus Dressler, Arvind Mandair Secularism and Religion-Making (Paperback, New)
Markus Dressler, Arvind Mandair
R1,490 Discovery Miles 14 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, knowledges, and institutions. It investigates how religion is universalized and certain ideas, social formations, and practices rendered "religious" are thus integrated in and subordinated to very particular - mostly liberal-secular - assumptions about the relationship between history, politics, and religion.
The individual contributions, written by a new generation of scholars with decisively interdisciplinary approaches, examine the processes of translation and globalization of historically specific concepts and practices of religion - and its dialectical counterpart, the secular - into new contexts. This volume contributes to the relatively new field of thought that aspires to unravel the thoroughly intertwined relationships between religion and secularism as modern concepts.

Prozess-Muster und Komponenten - Ausarbeitung im Rahmen des Projektseminars PICTURE (German, Paperback): Markus Dressler Prozess-Muster und Komponenten - Ausarbeitung im Rahmen des Projektseminars PICTURE (German, Paperback)
Markus Dressler
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Informatik - Wirtschaftsinformatik, Note: 1,0, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster (Lehrstuhl fur Wirtschaftsinformatik und Informationsmanagement), Veranstaltung: Projektseminar "PICTURE," Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Es handelt sich um eine Ausarbeitung im Rahmen des Projektseminars "PICTURE" (11 ECTS-Punkte) am Lehrstuhl fur Wirtschaftsinformatik und Informationsmanagement von Prof. Dr. Jorg Becker. Die Note stellt die Gesamtbenotung des Projektseminars dar. Der grosse Erfolg des insgesamt sechsmonatigen Vollzeitseminars, deren praktischer Teil in Kooperation mit der Stadt Munster und citeq durchgefuhrt wurde, hatte mehrere Fortsetzungsseminare und auch eine Unternehmensgrundung zur Folge (vgl. http: //www.picture-gmbh.de/)., Abstract: Das PICTURE-Projekt hat die Zielsetzung, ein Software-Werkzeug zu entwickeln, mit dem offentliche Verwaltungen Entscheidungen zur Investition in moderne Technologien bewerten und begrunden konnen. Dieses Werkzeug ist ein Hilfsmittel fur offentliche Verwaltungen um der allgemeinen Forderung nach mehr Leistungstransparenz, Effizienz und Effektivitat nachzukommen. Es gibt bestehende Ansatze, nach denen Verwaltungen diese Ziele erreichen konnen, indem sie lernen, unternehmerisch zu denken und zu handeln anstatt Aufgaben zu privatisieren. Stadte und Kommunen werden als Konzerne mit Dienstleistungsbetrieben aufgefasst, die wirtschaftlich entscheiden und investieren mussen. In diese Ansatze fugt sich das PICTURE-Werkzeug ein. Eine zentrale Idee des PICTURE-Werkzeuges ist die Verwendung von Prozessmustern. Prozessmuster sind austauschbare und wieder verwendbare Module, die jeweils einen Losungsvorschlag fur eine bestimmte Aufgabe darstellen. Sie sollen jedoch nicht den Softwareentwicklungsprozess unterstutzen. Vielmehr sollen Prozessmuster die Grundlage fur eine prozessbasierte Modellierungssprache sein, die die Modellierung der behordlichen Prozesse durch Verwaltungsmitarbeiter er

APAB/4 - Programmiersprache der SAP - "Advanced Business Application Programming, 4th generation language (German, Paperback):... APAB/4 - Programmiersprache der SAP - "Advanced Business Application Programming, 4th generation language (German, Paperback)
Markus Dressler
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Informatik - Angewandte Informatik, Note: 1,7, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster (Institut fur Wirtschaftsinformatik), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar "Programmiersprachen" SoSe 2004, 14 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: ABAP/4 ist die Programmiersprache von SAP., Abstract: Die Programmiersprache ABAP/4 - Abkurzung fur "Advanced Business Application Programming, 4th generation language" - ist die konzerneigene Programmiersprache der deutschen Firma SAP AG und zentraler Bestandteil ihrer Software-Produkte. SAP, der drittgrosste Softwarekonzern der Welt, ist ein Hersteller betrieblicher Standardsoftware mit dem Schwerpunkt auf "Enterprise Resource Planning" und besitzt im 1. Quartal 2004 einen um 3% gesteigerten weltweiten Marktanteil von 54% in diesem Segment. Im Umfeld des wichtigsten SAP-Produktes, dem modularen Gesamtsystem "R/3" mitsamt seinen aktuellen Erweiterungen "mySAP Technologie" und "SAP NetWeaver" zur Unterstutzung moderner Technologien wie Internet und Java, spielt ABAP eine entscheidende Rolle. Samtliche R/3-Module sowie Teile des Basissystems wurden von SAP in ABAP erstellt. SAP stellt auch eine eigene ABAP-Entwicklungsumgebung zur Verfugung, mit der vorhandene Geschaftsmodule angepasst oder neue Programme hinzugefugt werden konnen. Aus dieser Bedeutung ergibt sich die Motivation, sich naher mit dieser SAP-eigenen Programmiersprache zu befassen. Im Folgenden wird im zweiten Kapitel zunachst auf grundlegende Eigenschaften der Sprache ABAP und ihres SAP-Entwicklungsumfeldes eingegangen. Im dritten Kapitel werden die besonders hervorstechenden Merkmale, die ABAP von herkommlichen Programmiersprachen unterscheiden, untersucht sowie die wichtigsten, ABAP zugrunde liegenden Konzepte betrachtet. Seit neuestem konzentriert sich SAP auch auf die Einbeziehung von Java als gleichberechtigte Sprache neben ABAP. Daher wird abschliessend ein Ausblick auf die zu erwartende zukunfti

S/T-Systeme (Petri-Netze mit anonymen Marken) (German, Paperback): Markus Dre Ler, Markus Dressler S/T-Systeme (Petri-Netze mit anonymen Marken) (German, Paperback)
Markus Dre Ler, Markus Dressler
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Informatik - Wirtschaftsinformatik, Note: 1,7, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster (Institut fur Wirtschaftsinformatik, Lehrstuhl fur Quantitative Methoden der Wirtschaftsinformatik (Prof. Dr. U. Muller-Funk)), Veranstaltung: Skiseminar "Informationsmodellierung" (Marz) im WS04/05, 9 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Ausarbeitung zum Hauptseminar "Informationsmodellierung (Marz)" im WS2004/05, das als geblocktes Skiseminar vom 07.03.2005 bis 15.03.2005 auf der Zaferna-Hutte im Kleinwalsertal (Osterreich) stattfand. Angerechnet wurde dieses Seminar als 8-CP-Hauptseminar fur das WI-Pflichtfach "Entscheidungslehre" mit der Gesamtnote 1,7., Abstract: Petri-Netze sind, wie einst von Peter Stahlknecht als ironischer Hinweis auf ihren Verbreitungs- und Bekanntheitsgrad bemerkt, keine Instrumente zum Fische fangen. Vielmehr handelt es sich bei Petri-Netzen um eine der seltenen deutschen Beitrage zur theoretischen Informatik, die weltweit und auch in der US-amerikanischen Fachoffentlichkeit wahrgenommen wurden. Petri-Netze gehoren zu den wenigen wissenschaftlichen Schulen, die auch im heutigen Zeitalter nach dem Namen ihres Begrunders benannt wurden. Der Erste, der sich systematisch mit dieser Art von Graphen auseinandergesetzt hat, war Carl Adam Petri in seiner 1962 erschienenen Dissertation mit dem Titel "Kommunikation mit Automaten." Wahrend der praktische Nutzen von Petri-Netzen fur Anwender noch immer weithin unbekannt ist, haben Petri-Netze in der akademischen Welt bereits eine weite Verbreitung und Beachtung erfahren. 2004 fand bereits zum 25. Mal die "International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets" statt, eine Fachgruppe der deutschen "Gesellschaft fur Informatik" beschaftigt sich mit Petri-Netzen und neben vielen anderen hat auch Konrad Zuse ein Buch uber Petri-Netze geschrieben. Da es sich bei dieser Ausarbeitung um die erste in einer Sequenz von sechsen zum

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