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This volume aims to reflect on current research on Islam both methodologically and theoretically. As a field of research, Islam is not free of conflict, but rather a socially contested discursive arena that is linked to policy issues of security and integration. Beyond these daily problematizations in the political sphere and media, we want to deal with the various forms of lived Islamic religiosity and sociality.
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On the notion of the colonial matrix of difference and thinking in terms of binaries, see Khaldoun Samann (2010).
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Turner demonstrates the under-complexity of this by means of various scholarly and literary works that had a clear anti-colonial impetus, such as those of Evans Pritchard and Mary Douglas, but also early French ethnography, such as that of Michel Leiris. It must also be taken into account, Turner argues, that not all Western countries, e.g. Germany, had significant colonial possessions, and vice versa, i.e. that the USA practised an “inner Orientalism” in its treatment of slaves (2013a, pp. 94-95). In contrast, Talal Asad (1975, p. 18) claims that the power asymmetries in knowledge production are caused not by “the simple reflection of colonial ideology”, but by the hegemony of imperial knowledge regimes and epistemologies such as the coloniality of thinking in terms of antithetical typifications, binaries and difference such as ‘the secular’ versus ‘the religious’. Asad also focuses on the ways and modes of how colonial histories and the experiences of colonial subjects have become subaltern. Regarding the relevance of German colonialism, historical research has recently shown its devastating effects (Conrad 2012; Gottschalk 2017).
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He carried out this program in his 2016 book The Sociology of Islam. Knowledge, Power and Civility.
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Gärtner, C., Winkel, H. (2021). Introduction: Exploring Islam Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism. In: Gärtner, C., Winkel, H. (eds) Exploring Islam beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism. Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33239-6_1
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