Coping with defeat : Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the modern state
Jonathan Laurence
Bok · Engelsk · 2021
| Omfang | 578 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: Coping with Defeat -- 1. Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism and the Modern State -- The First Defeat: End of Empire: 2. The Fall and Rise of Roman Catholicism -- 3. The Plot against the Caliphate -- 4. The Rise and Fall of Pan-Islam -- The Second Defeat: Rise of the Nation-State: 5. Nation-State Catholicism -- 6. Nation-State Islam -- The Third Defeat: Believers without Borders: 7. Catholicism in the United States -- 8. Islam in Europe -- 9. Nation-State Islam vs. the Islamic State -- Conclusion: Embracing Spiritual Power: 10. Out of Office: Rejoining Civil Society -- Regime Timelines -- Glossary -- Interviews -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index.. - "How do centralized, institutional religions make peace with the modern state's displacement of their traditional prestige and power? What are the factors that can promote the mutual acceptance of religious communities and the secular rule of law? These are the questions posed in Jonathan Laurence's new book, which argues that Roman Catholicism and Sunni Islam have trod surprisingly similar paths in their respective histories. Contemporary Roman Catholicism and Sunni Islam both descend from religious states and empires, the Papacy in the case of Catholicism and the Caliphate in the case of Islam. As religio-political orders, the Western Church and the Islamic Caliphate ruled vast territories and populations. Each set of religio-political institutions made law, controlled land, and governed people for roughly four centuries. Yet both suffered three similar upheavals and challenges: the end of empires, the rise of the modern national state, and significant outward migrations from the "home base" of the religious tradition. Laurence suggests that the historical experience of Catholicism offers a useful model for those concerned about the contemporary Sunni Muslim leadership's attitude toward the modern state. Just as Catholicism worldwide benefited from the survival of the Vatican micro-state and its ability to exert guidance over the religious belief and practice of Catholics worldwide, so (argues Laurence) Muslim-majority states should continue exert control over mosques, imam-training, and religious educationre to concile Islam with the rule of law and thus with the authority of the secular state. This book is based on prodigious archival research in Vatican and Ottoman Archives and on interviews conducted with senior officials responsible for Islamic affairs or public religious education in Algiers, Ankara, Casablanca, Istanbul, Oran, Rabat, Tunis; and with senior interior ministry and foreign ministry officials in various European capitals responsible for relations with North African, Turkish, Qatari, and Saudi ministries of Islamic and religious affairs"--
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| ISBN | 9780691172125. - 9780691220543
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