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Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia (Phoenix Books)

By Clifford Geertz

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1971
ISBN
0226285111, 9780226285115
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19524585 bytes)
Pages
144\144
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

"In four brief chapters," writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, "I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparative analysis of religion and to apply it to a study of the development of a supposedly single creed, Islam, in two quite contrasting civilizations, the Indonesian and the Moroccan."Mr. Geertz begins his argument by outlining the problem conceptually and providing an overview of the two countries. He then traces the evolution of their classical religious styles which, with disparate settings and unique histories, produced strikingly different spiritual climates. So in Morocco, the Islamic conception of life came to mean activism, moralism, and intense individuality, while in Indonesia the same concept emphasized aestheticism, inwardness, and the radical dissolution of personality. In order to assess the significance of these interesting developments, Mr. Geertz sets forth a series of theoretical observations concerning the social role of religion.

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