Introduction
© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissionsoup.comTHIS ROUNDTABLE CONTINUES a conversation that has been taking place in the study of Islam and as a part of religious...
| 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: 25-27 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Science of Religion
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion BJ Islam KBQ North America |
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| Summary: | © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissionsoup.comTHIS ROUNDTABLE CONTINUES a conversation that has been taking place in the study of Islam and as a part of religious studies in North America for several decades. Indeed, the history of Islamic studies within the American Academy of Religion (AAR), beginning in the early 1970s, can be read as a history of sometimes rather passionate debates about the place of religious normativity and prescription on one end of the spectrum, and detached as well as supposedly more critical scholarship on the other. This is a debate about method as well as about purpose.The contributions to this roundtable are another episode in this ongoing conversation. They emerged from a roundtable conversation at the 2013 AAR annual meeting in Baltimore, titled “Normativity in the Field... |
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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/lfv123 |