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What Is Religious Authority?: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics

Autor Ismail Fajrie Alatas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 iun 2021
"Our shared understanding of religious authority owes much to the classic writings of sociologist Max Weber over a century ago, and in particular to Weber's articulation of charismatic leadership. In this book about the nature of religious authority in a majority Muslim society, Ismail Fajrie Alatas breaks with the Weberian model. He argues that religious authority emanates neither from the charismatic aura of gifted leaders nor to the ways in which such leaders master texts or scriptures deemed foundational by religious tradition. Alatas's core argument is that such authority is always constituted through the ceaseless work of community-building. By "community building," Alatas refers to an on-going process of networking, institution-building, counselling, trouble-shooting, advocating, fund-raising and ritual organizing, all with the aim of aligning the community to a foundational past -- to the imagined early days of the religious tradition in question"--
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ISBN-13: 9780691204314
ISBN-10: 0691204314
Pagini: 286
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Princeton University Press
Seria Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics


Notă biografică

Ismail Fajrie Alatas is assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. Twitter and Instagram @ifalatas