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Islam and christianity : mutual perceptions since the mid-20th century
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ISBN: 9042900040 2877233898 9782877233897 9789042900042 Year: 1998 Publisher: Leuven: Peeters,

Muslims as actors : Islamic meanings and Muslim interpretations in the perspective of the study of religions
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ISBN: 9783110191424 3110191423 311091395X Year: 2007 Volume: 46 Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,

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This book deals with Islamic studies and with the question how the scholarly study of religion can contribute to the study of Islam. The author advocates studying Islamic phenomena as signs and symbols interpreted and applied in diverse ways in existing traditions. He stresses the role of Muslims as actors in the ongoing debate about the articulation of Islamic ways of life and construction of Islam as a religion. A careful study of this debate should steer clear of political, religious, and ideological interests. Research in this area by Muslims and non-Muslim scholars alike should address the question of what Muslims have made of their Islam in specific circumstances. Current political contexts have created an unhealthy climate for pursuing an "open" approach to Islam based on reading, observing, listening and reflecting. Yet, precisely nowadays we need to look anew at ways of Muslim thinking and acting that refer to Islam and to avoid certain schemes of interpreting Muslim realities that are no longer adequate for present-day Muslim life situations. Muslim recourses to Islam can be studied as human constructions of value and meaning, and relations between Muslims and others can be seen in terms of human interaction, without blame always falling on Islam as such.

Islam: historical, social, and political perspectives
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ISBN: 3110171783 9786612195266 1282195263 3110200945 9783110171785 9783110200942 Year: 2002 Volume: 40 Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,

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This book presents some twenty essays on different aspects of Islam in history and the present. These essays are grouped into eight larger sections. The first, "The Beginnings", deals with the transition from pre-Islamic understandings and reason, an essential part of the Quranic message. The next two sections deal with Islam specifically as a religion with its particular signs and symbols. The question of rules of interpretation in Islam and its structural features is discussed here. Sections four and five deal with ethics in Islam, including Muslim identity and human rights, and certain social functions of Islam. Section six introduces some 19th and 20th century reform movements, with special attention given to developments in Saudi Arabia and the "puritan" characteristics of present-day Islamic revival movements. The final two sections discuss contemporary issues: Islamization processes and policies, Islamic ideologies, the ideologization of Islam, and the political uses of religion. Throughout the book the author shows the links between the religious and other interpretations and uses made of Islam and the contexts in which they are made. The Introduction signals some important developments in Islamic studies since World War II.

Muslims and others
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ISBN: 3110176270 311055237X 9786612195273 1282195271 3110200953 9783110200959 9783110176278 9781282195271 6612195274 Year: 2003 Volume: 41 Publisher: Berlin New York Walter de Gruyter

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Jacques Waardenburg writes about relations between Muslims and adherents of other religions. After illuminating various aspects of Islam from an outside point of view in his volume "Islam" (published in 2002 by de Gruyter) his second volume changes the perspective: The author shows how Muslims perceived non-Muslims - particularly Christianity and "the West", but also Judaism and Asian religions - in many centuries of religious dialogue and tensions. The main focus is on Muslim minorities in Western countries and on religious dialogues of which he provides first-hand knowledge through his participation in several important dialogue meetings. After 50 years of research and personal involvement, Waardenburg aims at a mutual understanding and reconciliation of Islam and other religions, particularly Christianity, both on an international level as well as on a more local level where "old" and "new", Christian and Muslim Europeans live together.

Reflections on the study of religion
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ISBN: 902797604X 3110814528 9783110814521 9789027976048 1306398649 9781306398640 Year: 1978 Volume: 15 Publisher: The Hague Mouton

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Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Religionen und Religion : systematische Einführung in die Religionswissenschaft
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ISBN: 3110103249 3110852195 Year: 1986 Volume: 2228 Publisher: Berlin New York de Gruyter


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Islam : norm, ideaal en werkelijkheid.
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ISBN: 9789047507833 9789000330720 9000330726 Year: 2008 Publisher: Antwerpen Fibula / Unieboek

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Islam. Norm, ideaal en werkelijkheid' is het eerste Nederlandse handboek dat een antwoord geeft op de nog steeds groeiende vraag naar betrouwbare informatie over de islam. De auteurs beschrijven de islam als geloof en godsdienst, leefwijze en cultuur. Uitgangspunt daarbij is de islam zoals die door de moslims zelf als hun godsdienst wordt ervaren. In deze visie, die afwijkt van de traditioneel westerse benadering, is de islam in een voortdurend proces van verandering en herijking van onder druk staande normen en idealen. Deze dynamiek is de basis van dit handboek. De ontwikkeling van de islam wordt nadrukkelijk in haar historische context geplaatst. Daarbij is een duidelijk onderscheid gemaakt tussen enerzijds gezaghebbende teksten van koran en soenna, die als bronnen van de islam functioneren, en anderzijds traditionele en meer recente interpretaties en toepassingen van deze teksten.

Muslim perceptions of other religions
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ISBN: 128052880X 0195355768 1429404302 9781429404303 0195104722 9780195104721 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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Since its inception, Islam and its civilization have been in continuous relationships with other religions. The essays collected here examine the many texts that have come down to us about these cultures and their religions, from Muslim theologians and jurists.


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Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion.
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ISBN: 3110473593 3110473860 9783110473599 3110469529 9783110473865 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin/Boston, GERMANY De Gruyter

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Waardenburg’s magisterial essay traces the rise and development of the academic study of religion from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, outlining the establishment of the discipline, its connections with other fields, religion as a subject of research, and perspectives on a phenomenological study of religion. Futhermore a second part comprises an anthology of texts from 41 scholars whose work was programmatic in the evolution of the academic study of religion. Each chapter presents a particular approach, theory, and method relevant to the study of religion. The pieces selected for this volume were taken from the discipline of religious studies as well as from related fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and psychology, to name a few.

Classical approaches to the study of religion
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ISBN: 3111773280 3110800721 9783110800722 1306271835 9781306271837 3110163284 9783110163285 9783111773285 Year: 1999 Volume: 3 Publisher: New York Walter de Gruyter

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