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religioN ANd Politics
ForthcomiNg
Man’s dominion
Religion and the Eclipse of Women’s Rights
in World Politics
Sheila Jeffreys, University of Melbourne, Australia
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
The Sacred Men’s Club examines the global struggle of
religious conservatism against women’s rights, and the
ways in which a rise in the power of organised religions
in western countries in the last two decades affects the
lives of women.
Institutionalised religion is, as feminist theorist Mary Daly
points out, a ‘sacred men’s club’. The rise of religious
ideals and movements in world politics can be
understood as representing a movement focusing on
men’s rights and power. Contrary to this lies the
marginalisation of women in religion and religious
power structure.
The book explores and provides:
• a feminist critique of the politics of religion
• a view that the contemporary rise of religion
endangers the rights of women in two ways: on the
world stage through the United Nations, and in
western democracies through multifaithism and
desecularisation
• concrete examples of the ways in which the rise of
religion affects women’s status by looking at polygamy
and dress practices.
Following on from The Industrial Vagina, Sheila Jeffrey’s
incisive and often controversial views provide a polemical
and radical re-envisioning of some of the most important
issues in the fields of religion, politics and gender
studies.
Selected Contents: 1. The Devilís Gateway: Feminism and
Religion 2. The Feminist Critique of Multiculturalism
3. Desecularisation and the Consolidation of Women’s
Subordination 4. The Right to Religion and Women’s Human
Rights 5. A Harem for Every Man: The Campaign to
Decriminalise Polygamy 6. Clothed in Submission: The
Modesty Requirement 7. The Master’s Tools?: Feminist
Reinterpretation or Rejection of Religion 8. Conclusion:
Combating the Rise of Religion
August 2011: 234 x 156: 208pp
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New
Islamic Radicalism and
Multicultural Politics
The British Experience
Tahir Abbas, Fatih University, Turkey
‘Much of the commentary on
Islam today is shrill and
one-dimensional which
further widens the gap
between Muslims and
non-Muslims. Because Tahir
Abbas’ Islamic Radicalism
and Multicultural Politics is
reasoned, scholarly and aims
to provide historical context
it is a powerful corrective.
Being both British and
Muslim allows him to
present us with a truly insider’s account.’ - Akbar
Ahmed, American University, USA
‘In the face of so many superficial denunciations of
radical Islam in Britain, Tahir Abbas provides an
account that is both broad in its historical coverage
and profound in its social analysis. In his sweep of
several centuries of South Asian Islamic thinking,
Abbas includes the conflicts engendered by British
colonialism, and the complex processes of
immigration and settlement in Britain. He is
especially good in his own speciality, the patterns
of inequality in education and in the labour
market, through which he shows how the global
growth in radical thinking can articulate with
domestic social disparities. Here is a distinctive
voice entering the debate.’ - John R. Bowen,
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Selected Contents: Preface 1. From the Historical to the
Contemporary 2. Islamic Political Radicalism: Origins and
Destinations 3. Post-war Immigration: Ethnicity, Identity and
Spatiality 4. The Formation of Muslim Capital: Education,
Employment and Entrepreneurialism 5. Neo-Orientalism and
Islamophobia: The Media and Print News 6. The Political
Philosophy of Multiculturalism and the ‘Modern Muslim’
7. Islamist Identity Politics in the Context of Glocalisation
8. Muslims, Crime, Terror and the Law 9. British Islam
Tomorrow and the Battle Ahead
January 2011: 234 x 156: 240pp
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Mawlana Mawdudi and
Political Islam
Authority and the Islamic state
Roy Jackson, University of Gloucestershire, UK
Mawlana Mawdudi was one of
the most influential and
important Islamic thinkers of
the 20th century, whose brand
of political Islam has won
widespread acceptance in South
and South East Asia as well as
the Middle East. This book is
the first to critically engage and
assess his career and legacy. It
includes coverage of his early
life and influences, and
examines his considerable
influence in the contemporary Islamic world.
Selected Contents: Introduction Part 1: The Life and
Times of Mawdudi 1. A Noble Lineage. 1903-1919 2. ‘A
hidden power within me’, 1920-1930 3. Crisis of the Spirit,
1930-1939 4. The Birth of a New Party, 1940-1947 5. The
Pakistan Years, 1947-1979 Part 2: Mawdudi and Political
Islam 6. The Need for ‘Intellectual Independence’ 7. The
Salafiyyah 8. Mawdudi’s Paradigms: The Four Sources of His
Islamic Constitution 9. Theo-Democracy (or Divine
Government?) 10. Jihad and the Permanent Revolution
11. Mawdudi’s Legacy
September 2010: 234 x 156: 216pp
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ForthcomiNg
Muslims in Britain
Making Social and Political Space
Edited by Waqar Ahmad, Middlesex University in
London, UK and Ziauddin Sardar
This book examines the social and political position of
Muslims in Britain. Contributions from academics and
policy makers explore issues of religion and politics,
Britishness, governance, parallel lives, gender issues,
religion in civic space, ethnicity, and inter ethnic and
religious relations.
Selected Contents: Introduction Waqar Ahmad and
Ziauddin Sardar 1. Reimagining and Renegotiating Muslim
Spaces Waqar Ahmad 2. Talking or Shouting? Religion and
Public Space Ziauddin Sardar 3. Multiculturalism and the
Gender Gap: Issues for Muslim Communities in Britain Heidi
Safia Mirza 4. Muslim, Female and Political: Creating Space
and Challenging Myths Bano Murtuja 5. Young Muslims in
London: Gendered Negotiations of Local, National and
Transnational Places Louise Ryan and Ludovica Banfi
6. Exploring Social Spaces of British Muslims Lucinda Platt
7. Are British Muslims Socially Segregated? Ludi Simpson and
Nissa Finney 8. Local Britain, Islam and the Governance of
Diversity Michael Keith 9. Britain and Britishness: Place,
Exclusion and Belonging Rosemary Sales
October 2011: 234 x 156: 224pp
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