Pious politics: Political theology in the Arab world and beyond

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Pious politics: Political theology in the Arab world and beyond "
Brandon Chase Gorman Kurzman, Charles

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	804146
Doc. No	:	TL48963
Call number	:	‭1829612896;‮ ‬10146033‬
Main Entry	:	Islam, Rabiul
Title & Author	:	Pious politics: Political theology in the Arab world and beyond\ Brandon Chase GormanKurzman, Charles
College	:	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date	:	2016
Degree	:	Ph.D.
field of study	:	Sociology
student score	:	2016
Page No	:	127
Note	:	Committee members: Bail, Christopher A.; Caren, Neal; Jamal, Amaney A.; Perrin, Andrew
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-01462-4
Abstract	:	In this dissertation, I investigate the correlates and contents of Islam-centered political ideas among individual Muslims using a combination of survey data, cognitive interview data, and text data gathered from Arabic-language online messageboards. In the Chapters 2 and 3, I find that Muslims tend to support <i> shari'a</i> law and other Islamist political values do not systematically object to liberal global norms like democracy and human rights. The fourth chapter builds on these findings by exploring how Muslims discuss these issues online using a combination of dictionary-based and unsupervised text classification techniques on a sample of 214,861 posts made on the Arabic-language messageboard <i>majalisna.com.</i> I find that posters on this messageboard take issue with global norms not because of the content of the norms themselves, but because of their relationship with the West and powerful global actors. These results 1) provide evidence that the divide between Islamists and non-Islamists in the Muslim world is not as stark as the scholarly literature would otherwise suggest and 2) show that the expansion of international institutions and global culture can lead to both isomorphism and differentiation in local attitudes and practices.
Subject	:	Religion; Middle Eastern Studies; Political science; Sociology
Descriptor	:	Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Democracy;Islamism;Mixed methods;Text analysis;World culture
Added Entry	:	Kurzman, Charles
Added Entry	:	SociologyThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill