Turner, Bryan S. <br/><br/>
The sociology of Islam :  collected essays of Bryan S. Turner / 
edited by Bryan S. Turner and Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir. 
 - xii, 312 pages. ;  24 cm 
 - Contemporary thought in the Islamic world .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Islam, capitalism and the Weber theses -- Origins and traditions in Islam and Christianity -- State, science and economy in traditional societies -- Conscience in the construction of religion: a critique of Marshall G.S. Hodgson's The venture of Islam -- Orientalism, Islam and capitalism -- On the concept of axial space: orientalism and the originary -- Orientalism, or the politics of the text -- Leibniz, Islam and cosmopolitan virtue -- Sovereignty and emergency: political theology, Islam and American conservatism -- Class, generation and Islamism: towards a global sociology of political Islam -- Religious authority and the new media -- Women, piety and practice: a study of women and religious practice in Malaysia -- The body and piety: the hijab and marriage -- Islam, diaspora and multiculturalism -- Shari'a and legal pluralism in the West. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781409462118 (hardcover)  RM387.80 1409462110 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Islamic sociology.<br/>Islamic civilization.