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Explore compelling insights with 'Coping with Defeat,' a groundbreaking book that investigates the intricate parallels between the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires. This scholarly work delves deep into the historical narratives and political-religious dynamics that shaped these powerful institutions and their responses to modernity. By employing rigorous archival research and firsthand interviews in regions such as Turkey, North Africa, and Western Europe, author Jonathan Laurence examines pivotal moments of transformation: from religious reformation and the emergence of the nation-state to the critical impact of mass migration.
This engaging exploration reveals how both empires confronted similar shocks that altered their institutional frameworks. As Catholic communities adapted to state jurisdiction and embraced transnational leadership, Sunni authorities are currently experiencing a parallel evolution. Laurence's findings illustrate that the changing roles of these faiths in contemporary society reflect deep-rooted patterns of adaptation in response to political defeat and ideological challenges.
A must-read for historians, political scientists, and anyone interested in the intersection of religion and state, 'Coping with Defeat' offers a thought-provoking narrative on how centralized religious institutions have evolved and now navigate their complex relationships with modern governance. Don't miss your chance to own this crucial text!
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW | ISBN: 9780691220543 | Format: Trade binding | Year: 2021 | Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780691220543
Format: Trade binding
Year: 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Description:
The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern state.
Coping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state. Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research in Turkey, North Africa, and Western Europe, Jonathan Laurence demonstrates how, over hundreds of years, both Sunni and Catholic authorities experienced three major shocks and displacements-religious reformation, the rise of the nation-state, and mass migration. As a result, Catholic institutions eventually accepted the state's political jurisdiction and embraced transnational spiritual leadership as their central mission. Laurence reveals an analogous process unfolding across the Sunni Muslim world in the twenty-first century.
Identifying institutional patterns before and after political collapse, Laurence shows how centralised religious communities relinquish power at different rates and times. Whereas early Christianity and Islam were characterised by missionary expansion, religious institutions forged in the modern era are primarily defensive in nature. They respond to the simple but overlooked imperative to adapt to political defeat while fighting off ideological challenges to their spiritual authority. Among Laurence's findings is that the disestablishment of Islam-the doing away with Islamic affairs ministries in the Muslim world-would harm, not help with, reconciliation to the rule of law.
Examining upheavals in geograp
This engaging exploration reveals how both empires confronted similar shocks that altered their institutional frameworks. As Catholic communities adapted to state jurisdiction and embraced transnational leadership, Sunni authorities are currently experiencing a parallel evolution. Laurence's findings illustrate that the changing roles of these faiths in contemporary society reflect deep-rooted patterns of adaptation in response to political defeat and ideological challenges.
A must-read for historians, political scientists, and anyone interested in the intersection of religion and state, 'Coping with Defeat' offers a thought-provoking narrative on how centralized religious institutions have evolved and now navigate their complex relationships with modern governance. Don't miss your chance to own this crucial text!
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW | ISBN: 9780691220543 | Format: Trade binding | Year: 2021 | Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780691220543
Format: Trade binding
Year: 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Description:
The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern state.
Coping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state. Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research in Turkey, North Africa, and Western Europe, Jonathan Laurence demonstrates how, over hundreds of years, both Sunni and Catholic authorities experienced three major shocks and displacements-religious reformation, the rise of the nation-state, and mass migration. As a result, Catholic institutions eventually accepted the state's political jurisdiction and embraced transnational spiritual leadership as their central mission. Laurence reveals an analogous process unfolding across the Sunni Muslim world in the twenty-first century.
Identifying institutional patterns before and after political collapse, Laurence shows how centralised religious communities relinquish power at different rates and times. Whereas early Christianity and Islam were characterised by missionary expansion, religious institutions forged in the modern era are primarily defensive in nature. They respond to the simple but overlooked imperative to adapt to political defeat while fighting off ideological challenges to their spiritual authority. Among Laurence's findings is that the disestablishment of Islam-the doing away with Islamic affairs ministries in the Muslim world-would harm, not help with, reconciliation to the rule of law.
Examining upheavals in geograp