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- Tradition and Modernity: Christian and Muslim Perspectives
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- 2013
- Published by: Georgetown University Press
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Tradition and Modernity focuses on how Christians and Muslims connect their traditions to modernity, looking especially at understandings of history, changing patterns of authority, and approaches to freedom. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts from 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries.
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- Participants
- pp. vii-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-4
- Part I: Surveys
- Christianity, Modernity, and Freedom
- pp. 67-78
- Part II: Christian and Muslim Thinkers on Tradition and Modernity
- John Henry Newman (1801–90)
- pp. 81-88
- Muḥammad ʿAbduh (1849–1905)
- pp. 97-104
- Muḥammad ʿAbduh: A Sufi-Inspired Modernist?
- pp. 105-114
- Sayyid Abū l-Aʿlāʾ Mawdūdī (1903–79)
- pp. 115-124
- Mawdūdī and the Challenges of Modernity
- pp. 125-132
- Lesslie Newbigin (1909–98)
- pp. 133-140
- Newbigin and the Critique of Modernity
- pp. 141-150
- Alasdair MacIntyre (1929– )
- pp. 151-156
- MacIntyre on Tradition
- pp. 157-168
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933– )
- pp. 169-176
- Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (1938– )
- pp. 185-192
- Tariq Ramadan (1962– )
- pp. 201-208
Additional Information
ISBN
9781589019829
Related ISBN(s)
9781589019492
MARC Record
OCLC
846496211
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2013-11-28
Language
English
Open Access
No
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