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With the increasing Muslim diaspora in post-modern Western societies, Sufism - intellectually as well as sociologically - may eventually become Islam itself due to its versatile potential. Although Sufism has always provoked considerable interest in the West, no volume has so far been written which discusses this aspect of Islam in terms of how it is practised in Western societies. Bringing together leading international authorities to survey the history of Islamic mysticism in North America and Europe, this book elaborates the ideas and institutions which organize Sufism and folk-re

Sufism --- 297*2 --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- Soefisme --- Islam --- 297*2 Soefisme --- Europe --- North America --- orders --- bawa --- muhaiyaddeen --- movements --- insan --- kamil --- hisham --- kabbani --- groups --- abd-al-qr --- Muslim diaspora --- post-modern Western societies --- political Islam --- organisation --- institutionalisation --- recruitment --- ritual --- charisma --- history

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For over half a century, the countless organizations and initiatives that comprise the Women’s Liberation movement have helped to reshape many aspects of Western societies, from public institutions and cultural production to body politics and subsequent activist movements. This collection represents the first systematic investigation of WLM’s cumulative impacts and achievements within the West. Here, specialists on movements in Europe systematically investigate outcomes in different countries in the light of a reflective social movement theory, comparing them both implicitly and explicitly to developments in other parts of the world.

Feminism --- Women's rights --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Rights of women --- Human rights --- History --- Social conditions --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- body politics and activist movements. --- cumulative impacts and achievements. --- investigation of wlms impacts. --- political. --- public institutions and cultural production. --- reflective social movement theory. --- reshape aspects of western societies. --- womens liberation movement.

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new religious movements --- cult wars --- CESNUR --- deviance --- devotion --- the evolution of NRM studies --- America --- law --- courts --- religious freedom --- jurisprudence --- Western societies --- anti-cult movement --- Croatia --- the Family International --- Children of God --- the Unification movement --- ISKCON --- the Church of Scientology --- the Freezone --- controversy --- recognition --- writing on and researching new religious movements