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  • Crisis Of Cultural Intelligence, The: The Anthropology Of Civil-military Operations

    by David Hyndman, Scott Flower ...
    Military and civilian organizations in the past have attempted to understand culture and the cultural environment of conflict zones through anthropology. While there is a small and growing number of studies examining the use of anthropology for counterinsurgency, no studies have compared the Anglo-Saxon ABCA Armies' approaches to understanding cultural factors for counterinsurgency and civil ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Islam and Cultural Change in Papua New Guinea

    by Scott Flower ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
    Scholars of religion and policy makers may be surprised at the changes occurring on the second largest island of the world that straddles one of the most Christianised and least Christianised areas of the world. This book provides an accurate and deeper understanding of the nature of Islam in Papua New Guinea, and determines the causes and processes of recent growth in the country’s Muslim ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

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  • Islam and the Future of Tolerance

    A Dialogue

    by Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz ...
    “A civil but honest dialogue…As illuminating as it is fascinating.”—Ayaan Hirsi AliIs Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem to be drawn to extremism? And what do words like jihadism and fundamentalism really mean? In a world riven by misunderstanding and violence, Sam Harris—a famous atheist—and Maajid Nawaz—a former radical—demonstrate how two ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • A New Anthropology of Islam

    by John R. Bowen ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    In this powerful, but accessible new study, John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam - revelation and learning in Arabic lands - Bowen shows how Muslims have adapted Islamic texts and traditions to ideas and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman

    Paths to Conversion

    by Anabel Inge ...
    The spread of Salafism--often referred to as "Wahhabism"--in the West has intrigued and alarmed observers since the attacks of 9/11. Many see it as a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that condones the subjugation of women and fuels Jihadist extremism. This view depicts Salafi women as the hapless victims of a fanatical version of Islam. Yet in Britain, growing numbers of educated women- ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Relevance of Islamic Identity in Canada

    Culture, Politics, and Self

    by Nurjehan Aziz ...
    This volume examines, from diverse perspectives, what it means to be a Muslim in Canada. Is it a public or a private identity, and as an identity is it compatible with a secular democracy such as Canada? What relation does it bear to historical, cultural, and ethnic identities? Is a total agnostic or an atheist a Muslim? Is a person who disavows being a Muslim still a Muslim? How do Muslims cope ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Fethullah Gülen’s Teaching and Practice

    Inheritance, Context, and Interactive Development

    by Paul Weller ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This is the first book of its kind about the Turkish Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gülen, since the July 2016 events in Turkey, the trauma experienced by Gülen, and the disruption to initiatives inspired by his teaching, known as Hizmet. Drawing on primary interviews with Gülen and Hizmet participants and a literature review, this Open Access book locates the clear origins of Gülen’s teaching in the ... Read more

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  • Ethno-Religious Violence in Indonesia

    From Soil to God

    by Chris Wilson ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Ethno-religious violence in Indonesia illustrates in detail how and why previously peaceful religious communities can descend into violent conflict.From 1999 until 2000, the conflict in North Maluku, Indonesia, saw the most intense communal violence of Indonesia’s period of democratization. For almost a year, militias waged a brutal religious war which claimed the lives of almost four thousand ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Women in Islam

    The Western Experience

    by Anne-Sofie Roald ...
    Women in Islam investigates the ongoing debate across the Muslim world and the West on the position of women in Islam.Anne-Sofie Roald focuses on how Islamic perceptions of women and gender change in Western Muslim communities. She shows how Islamic attitudes towards social concerns such as gender relations, female circumcision, and female dress emerge as responsive to culture and context, rather ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Radical Islam Rising

    Muslim Extremism in the West

    by Quintan Wiktorowicz ...
    Although the West denounces the spread of radical Islam in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and elsewhere in the Muslim world, it tends to overlook the development of Islamic extremism in its own societies. Over the past several decades, groups like al-Qaeda have been supported by thousands of citizens of the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western democracies. Rejecting their national ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Islam in Indonesia

    The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values

    by Carool Kersten ...
    Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and progressive camps with increasingly antagonistic views on the place of Islam in society. Debates over the underlying principles of democratisation have further heated up after ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The End of Innocence?

    Indonesian Islam and the Temptations of Radicalism

    by Andrée Feillard, Rémy Madinier ...
    Translated by Wee Wong ...
    Long cited as a model of harmonious cohabitation between different religions, the most populous Muslim country in the world until recently occupied a special place in the Western imagination. Indonesia, home to a peaceful version of Islam, offered a reass ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD