Accurate Knowledge: Implications of ‘Lived Islamic Theology' for the Academic Study of Islamic Disciplines

This article discusses the relationship between, on the one hand, the academic study of Islamic disciplines within university faculties of humanities and theology, including religious studies, and, on the other, ‘lived Islamic theology', i.e. the diverse Islamic institutional discourses that in...

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Auteurs: Mårtensson, Ulrika 1963- (Auteur) ; Eriksen, Eli-Anne Vongraven (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Taylor & Francis [2018]
Dans: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Année: 2018, Volume: 29, Numéro: 4, Pages: 465-483
Sujets non-standardisés:B Islamic disciplines
B Cultural Capital
B Norwegian Islam
B Islam and humanities
B Islamic academic theology
B lived Islamic theology
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
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Résumé:This article discusses the relationship between, on the one hand, the academic study of Islamic disciplines within university faculties of humanities and theology, including religious studies, and, on the other, ‘lived Islamic theology', i.e. the diverse Islamic institutional discourses that inform individuals' religious knowledge and practices. Here, ‘lived Islamic theology' refers to research from the Norwegian cities of Trondheim and Oslo. The analytical model is Michel de Certeau's, Pierre Bourdieu's and Jürgen Habermas's concepts of discourse and ‘capital'. We argue that the academic study of Islamic disciplines is a prerequisite for accurate public knowledge about ‘lived Islamic theology'; that it potentially increases the ‘cultural capital' assigned to Islamic knowledge in the public sphere, and thereby enables citizens to contribute to the common good through Islam; and that it can enrich the humanities by showing how Islamic disciplines correlate with ‘Western' philosophical, hermeneutical, ethical, linguistic, political and historical disciplines.
ISSN:1469-9311
Contient:Enthalten in: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2018.1523344