Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Orientalism, postmodernism and religion; Orientalism and the problem of civil society in Islam; Accounting for the Orient; Conscience in the construction of religion; Gustave von Grunebaum and the mimesis of Islam; Politics and culture in Islamic globalism; From orientalism to global sociology; The concept of 'the world' in sociology; Nostalgia, postmodernism and the critique of mass culture; Two faces of sociology: global or national?; Ideology and utopia in the formation of an intelligentsia; From regulation to risk.
Summary
This book represents a remarkable synthesis of recent discussion and debate regarding crucial aspects of postmodernization, religious change and the globalization of world society.
"Represents a ... recent discussion and debate regarding crucial aspects of cultural postmodernization, religious change, and the globalization of world society"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index.
