Legal Cases, New Religious Movements, and Minority Faiths Edited by James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno, USA and François Bellanger, University of Geneva, Switzerland Ashgate Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/tis/9781472428745_US.pdf New religious movements (NRMs) and … Continue reading →

OLD ISLAM IN DETROIT documents the rich history of Islam in Detroit, a city that is home to several of America’s oldest and most diverse Muslim communities. By looking closely at this history, Sally Howell provides a new interpretation of … Continue reading →

Applying Ibn Khaldun The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology By Syed Farid Alatas http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9780415678780/ The writings of Ibn Khaldun, particularly the Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon) have rightly been regarded as being sociological in nature. For this reason, Ibn Khaldun has … Continue reading →

Religiously Oriented Parties and Democratization Edited by Luca Ozzano, Francesco Cavatorta Routledge – 2014 – 174 pages Series: Democratization Special Issues http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138775381/ To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; … Continue reading →