A Response
In addressing a certain type of “normativity” in Islamic studies, each contribution to the roundtable offers a corrective in turn. Authors' justifications for these prescriptions are commitments to academic methods shared across religious studies. This points to a methodological horizon in Isla...
Subtitles: | Roundtable on normativity in islamic studies |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2016]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 84, Issue: 1, Pages: 113-126 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Normativity
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IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam |
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Summary: | In addressing a certain type of “normativity” in Islamic studies, each contribution to the roundtable offers a corrective in turn. Authors' justifications for these prescriptions are commitments to academic methods shared across religious studies. This points to a methodological horizon in Islamic studies within the American Academy of Religion (AAR): how ethical engagements, such as “progressive Islam,” shape scholarly representation. I discuss an example from my own research, the treatment of the topic “Islam and the environment.” I call for methodologically disciplined steps in order to take Islam, when it is cast instrumentally as a production of projects for change (possibly our own) also to be an object of phenomenological study. |
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ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfv121 |