The Crisis of Muslim Religious Discourse - 9781032129648

Taylor & Francis

The Crisis of Muslim Religious DiscourseThe Necessary Shift from Plato to Kant\nAuthor(s): Lahouari Addi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032129648, 978-1032129648\nSynopsis\nShowing that Muslim societies are facing a crisis that is more cultural than religious, this book focuses on cultural representations through which social life is experienced in the Muslim world. It brings a new theoretical framework to address the secularization process that is underway and the contradictions it entails.\n\nThis volume will arouse a new debate on secularization and the relations between religion, culture and philosophy. The crisis Muslim societies are undergoing pertains to the culture and not to the Quran to the extent that people do not have access to the sacred in itself but only for oneself, meaning a cultural interpretation of the sacred. The Quran in itself is not an obstacle to secularization and modernization since .