Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Religion and Multiple Modernities within Islam

This article presents the overarching theoretical framework and some tentative findings of the Modern Muslim Subjectivities Project (MMSP). It discusses some of its conceptual tools and presents strategies for studying the role of religion in modern Muslim subjectivity formation. The core rationale...

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Main Author: Jung, Dietrich 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Numen
Year: 2019, Volume: 66, Issue: 4, Pages: 339-359
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Islam / Subjectivity / Western world / Cultural contact
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
Further subjects:B Islamic traditions
B Religion
B Multiple Modernities
B modern subjectivity
B global imaginaries
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Summary:This article presents the overarching theoretical framework and some tentative findings of the Modern Muslim Subjectivities Project (MMSP). It discusses some of its conceptual tools and presents strategies for studying the role of religion in modern Muslim subjectivity formation. The core rationale of this research program is to explore the role of religious traditions in the construction of modern forms of Muslim subjectivity and social order. It investigates the ways in which Muslims have imagined specifically Islamic modernities in combination with non-religious and globally relevant cultural scripts. In criticizing the alleged Western origin and secular nature of modernity, the MMSP aims at making original contributions both to conceptual discussions of modernity in the study of religions and to our knowledge of modern Muslim societies.
ISSN:1568-5276
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Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341543