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The generation of meaning is the primary precondition for acting and thinking. The essays in this volume contribute to a discourse on this matter with a decentred, globalized world in mind. The notions civilization, humanism and modernity - far from being exclusively Western ideas - may facilitate joint efforts of reflecting on the universality of current human conditions, particularly since such reflexion is possible from particular cultural perspectives. Modernity presents us with a second Axial Time in which the quest for a plural, but shared, humane world is the challenge.

Civilization; Axial Age; Modernity; Humanism; Globalization; Culture; Cultural History; Human; Cultural Theory; Philosophy of Culture; Cultural Studies --- Axial Age. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Theory. --- Culture. --- Globalization. --- Human. --- Humanism. --- Modernity. --- Philosophy of Culture.

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The articles included in this Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam are focused on two perspectives: Some link the comparative analysis of Islam to ongoing debates on the Axial Age and its role in the formation of major civilizational complexes, while others are more concerned with the historical constellations and sources involved in the formation of Islam as a religion and a civilization. More than any other particular line of inquiry, new historical and sociological approaches to the Axial Age revived the idea of comparative civilizational analysis and channeled it into more specific projects. A closer look at the very problematic place of Islam in this context will help to clarify questions about the Axial version of civilizational theory as well as issues in Islamic studies and sociological approaches to modern Islam. Contributors among others: Said Arjomand, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Josef van Ess and Raif G. Khoury. »[Es] ist zu vermerken, dass vergleichende historische Zivilisationsforschung, aufgrund der Spezialisierung der jeweiligen Fachgebiete, nicht gerade ein überrepräsentiertes Terrain darstellt. Allein deshalb beinhaltet dieser Band jede Menge neue Denkanstöße und interessante Blickwinkel für an der Materie Interessierte.« Philipp Bruckmayr, DAVO Nachrichten, 7 (2008) »Auch das 7. Jahrbuch für die Soziologie des Islams vereinigt Beiträge von Autoren, die sich von sehr unterschiedlichen Ausgangspunkten ausgehend in eine aktuelle Debatte einmischen. Je nach dem theoretischen und wissenschaftlich-praktischen Standpunkt wird der Leser die Beiträge mit unterschiedlicher Zustimmung, aber stets mit Interesse lesen.« Peter Heine, Anthropos, 103/1 (2008) »Diejenigen, die sich auf eine genaue Lektüre einlassen, werden je nach Interesse in unterschiedlichem Umfang Anregungen und Anstöße aus diesem Band mitnehmen können, besonders was die frühe Zeit des Islam betrifft.« Astrid Meier, www.geschichte-transnational/clio-online.net, 15.02.2008

Islam --- Comparative Analysis of Civilisations. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Studies. --- History of Religion. --- Islam. --- Islamic Studies. --- Religion. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Sociology. --- Axial Age Theory (history); Comparative Analysis of Civilisations; Cultural Studies; Islam; Religion; Cultural History; Islamic Studies; Sociology of Religion; History of Religion; Sociology --- Civilization. --- Islamic sociology. --- Muslim sociology --- Sociology, Islamic --- Sociology --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Axial Age Theory (history) --- Comparative Analysis of Civilisations --- Cultural Studies --- Religion --- Cultural History --- Islamic Studies --- Sociology of Religion --- History of Religion --- Islamic countries --- Civilization --- History. --- Muslim countries

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Religion and nationalism are both powerful and important markers of individual identity, but the relationship between the two has been a source of considerable debate. Much, if not most, of the early work done in Nationalism Studies has been based, at least implicitly, on the idea that religion, as a genealogical carrier of identity, was displaced with the advent of secular modernity, which was caused by nationalism. Or, to put it another way, national identity, and its ideological manifestation nationalism, filled the void left in people’s self-identification as religion retreated in the face of modernity. Since at least the late 1990s, this view has been increasingly challenged by scholars trying to account for the apparent persistence of religious identities. Perhaps even more interestingly, scholars of both religion and nationalism have noted that these two kinds of self-identification, while sometimes being tense, as the earlier models explained, are also frequently coexistent or even mutually supportive. This collection of essays explores the current thinking about the relationship between religion and nationalism from a variety of perspectives, using a number of different case studies. What all these approaches have in common is their interest in complicating our understandings of nationalism as a primarily secular phenomenon by bringing religion back into the discussion.

Christian nationalism --- Protestantism --- evangelicalism --- ecumenical movement --- Reinhold Niebuhr --- Francis Miller --- Christianity and Crisis --- axial age --- kinship --- monolatry --- monotheism --- nation --- priest --- religion --- territory --- nationalism --- Tatar --- socialism --- Islamic reform --- Wahhabism --- religious nationalism --- American Buddhism --- God and Country --- minority religion in the U.S. --- Engaged Buddhism --- Romanitas --- Hellenitas --- Graecitas --- Hellene --- Greek --- Byzantine Empire --- identity --- consciousness --- religious rituals --- secular rituals --- profane rituals --- democratic faith --- civil religion --- civility --- moderation --- Orthodox Christianity --- autocephaly --- schism --- canon law --- church–state conflicts --- Buddhism --- Theravāda --- non-violence --- asceticism --- polytheism --- Burma --- Myanmar --- Islamism

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Religion and nationalism are both powerful and important markers of individual identity, but the relationship between the two has been a source of considerable debate. Much, if not most, of the early work done in Nationalism Studies has been based, at least implicitly, on the idea that religion, as a genealogical carrier of identity, was displaced with the advent of secular modernity, which was caused by nationalism. Or, to put it another way, national identity, and its ideological manifestation nationalism, filled the void left in people’s self-identification as religion retreated in the face of modernity. Since at least the late 1990s, this view has been increasingly challenged by scholars trying to account for the apparent persistence of religious identities. Perhaps even more interestingly, scholars of both religion and nationalism have noted that these two kinds of self-identification, while sometimes being tense, as the earlier models explained, are also frequently coexistent or even mutually supportive. This collection of essays explores the current thinking about the relationship between religion and nationalism from a variety of perspectives, using a number of different case studies. What all these approaches have in common is their interest in complicating our understandings of nationalism as a primarily secular phenomenon by bringing religion back into the discussion.

Religion & beliefs --- Christian nationalism --- Protestantism --- evangelicalism --- ecumenical movement --- Reinhold Niebuhr --- Francis Miller --- Christianity and Crisis --- axial age --- kinship --- monolatry --- monotheism --- nation --- priest --- religion --- territory --- nationalism --- Tatar --- socialism --- Islamic reform --- Wahhabism --- religious nationalism --- American Buddhism --- God and Country --- minority religion in the U.S. --- Engaged Buddhism --- Romanitas --- Hellenitas --- Graecitas --- Hellene --- Greek --- Byzantine Empire --- identity --- consciousness --- religious rituals --- secular rituals --- profane rituals --- democratic faith --- civil religion --- civility --- moderation --- Orthodox Christianity --- autocephaly --- schism --- canon law --- church–state conflicts --- Buddhism --- Theravāda --- non-violence --- asceticism --- polytheism --- Burma --- Myanmar --- Islamism --- Christian nationalism --- Protestantism --- evangelicalism --- ecumenical movement --- Reinhold Niebuhr --- Francis Miller --- Christianity and Crisis --- axial age --- kinship --- monolatry --- monotheism --- nation --- priest --- religion --- territory --- nationalism --- Tatar --- socialism --- Islamic reform --- Wahhabism --- religious nationalism --- American Buddhism --- God and Country --- minority religion in the U.S. --- Engaged Buddhism --- Romanitas --- Hellenitas --- Graecitas --- Hellene --- Greek --- Byzantine Empire --- identity --- consciousness --- religious rituals --- secular rituals --- profane rituals --- democratic faith --- civil religion --- civility --- moderation --- Orthodox Christianity --- autocephaly --- schism --- canon law --- church–state conflicts --- Buddhism --- Theravāda --- non-violence --- asceticism --- polytheism --- Burma --- Myanmar --- Islamism