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Reframing Authority
Laura Feldt, Christian Hogel, Lars Boje Mortensen, Jane Hjarl Petersen, Martin Rheinheimer, Olav Hammer, Anne Magnussen, Maja G. Zuckerman, Dietrich Jung, Mikael Aktor
Questions of authority are perennial. Authority has been and still is a key topic in many studies of history, society, literature, and religion, just as it is a key issue in contemporary societies. In spite of the scholarly attention, authority continues to have an elusive quality. Reframing Authori...
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Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere
In light of the ongoing public debate that focuses on differences between Islam and the West, this book suggests a change of perspective. It departs from the observation that both western Orientalists and Islamist activists have defined Islam similarly as an all-encompassing religious, political and...