Tweeted heresies: Saudi Islam in transformation

How should we understand religion in Saudi Arabia? To what extent does religion control the various aspects of Saudi life? Why are more and more Saudis and generally Muslims leaning toward heresy? Why are many others exhibiting an indifference toward religion? And how does our understanding of the s...

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1. Verfasser: Ḥamīd-ad-Dīn, ʿAbdallāh Ibn-Muḥammad 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2020
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Zusammenfassung:How should we understand religion in Saudi Arabia? To what extent does religion control the various aspects of Saudi life? Why are more and more Saudis and generally Muslims leaning toward heresy? Why are many others exhibiting an indifference toward religion? And how does our understanding of the state of religion in Saudi Arabia inform us about the state of religion in other Islamic communities? This text explores the emergence of nonbelief and the response to it from the Salafi-Wahhabi religious institutions of Saudi Arabia
Introduction -- 1. Criticising religion -- 2. Ambivalent religiosity -- 3. Criticising religion on Twitter -- 4. Religious disengagements -- 5. Backlash: Takfir campaigns -- 6. Evolution of Saudi religion -- Index
Beschreibung:Bibliographical references p. 191-224, and index
Beschreibung:vii, 230 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9780190062583

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