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What is the social base of Islamization? What norms can be derived from it? What areas are being Islamized? What is Islamization all about? These and similar pertinent questions are dealt with in this book. The theoretical framework developed and elaborated in the first chapter is substantiated by a wide range of data that follow. This pioneering study gives an insight into the different manifestations of Islam, rural and urban social structures, the tussle ...
Until the early-1970s, there was a significant lack of interest in religion among scientists of all disciplines. Scholars, including those engaged in the study of religion, were convinced that religion would disappear from history as well as the public sphere to become a purely private matter. Against all predictions, however, religion has returned very much to the public domain. Alarmingly though, the relationship between different religions in a shared social ...