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  • The Missing Martyrs

    Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists

    by Charles Kurzman ...
    Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world--many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom--why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? In this startlingly counterintuitive book, a leading authority on Islamic movements demonstrates that terrorist groups are thoroughly marginal in the Muslim world. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Missing Martyrs

    Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists

    by Charles Kurzman ...
    Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world--many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom--why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? In this startlingly counterintuitive book, a leading authority on Islamic movements demonstrates that terrorist groups are thoroughly marginal in the Muslim world. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Toleration on Trial

    by Nathan J. Brown, Richard H. Dees, John Ferejohn, James L. Gibson, Steven Kelts, Jack Knight, Charles Kurzman, Dimitri Landa, Partap B. Mehta, Emad Shahin, Karen Stenner, Rainer Forst, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Russell Hardin, George Klosko ...
    Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study available on the issue of toleration, bringing together political psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, Islamic scholars, and political theorists to examine the most pressing debates in the field. The volume addresses the toleration question from a number of angles: toleration and its application to gay rights; Islam and toleration; ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Modernist Islam, 1840-1940

    A Sourcebook

    Edited by Charles Kurzman ...
    Modernist Islam was a major intellectual current in the Muslim world during the 19th and 20th centuries. Proponents of this movement typically believed that it was not only possible but imperative to show how "modern" values and institutions could be reconciled with authentically Islamic ideals. This sourcebook brings together a broad range of writings on modernist Islam from across the Muslim ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Missing Martyrs

    Why Are There So Few Muslim Terrorists?

    by Charles Kurzman ...
    Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world-many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom-why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? These questions may seem counterintuitive, in light of the death and devastation that terrorists have wrought around the world. But the scale of violence, outside of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Rethinking Social Movements

    Structure, Meaning, and Emotion

    by Jeff Goodwin, Richard Flacks, Marshall Ganz, Deborah B. Gould, Ruud Koopmans, Charles Kurzman, David A. Merrill, David S. Meyer, Francesca Polletta, Marc W. Steinberg0, Myra Marx Ferree1, James M. Jasper2, Doug McAdam4, Aldon Morris5, Sidney Tarrow6, Charles Tilly7 ...
    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides-as well as the efforts to bridge them-closely parallel those in the discipline of sociology at large. ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Modernist Islam, 1840-1940

    A Sourcebook

    Edited by Charles Kurzman ...
    Modernist Islam was a major intellectual current in the Muslim world during the 19th and 20th centuries. Proponents of this movement typically believed that it was not only possible but imperative to show how "modern" values and institutions could be reconciled with authentically Islamic ideals. This sourcebook brings together a broad range of writings on modernist Islam from across the Muslim ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Caring Democracy

    Markets, Equality, and Justice

    by Joan C. Tronto ...
    A rethinking of American democracy that puts caring responsibilities at the centerAmericans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people’s time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see ... Read more

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  • No god but God (Updated Edition)

    The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

    by Reza Aslan ...
    A twentieth-anniversary edition of the fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam with a new preface and study guide, from the #1 bestselling author of ZealotFINALIST FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD“Wise and passionate . . . an incisive, scholarly primer in Muslim history and an engaging personal exploration.” —The New York Times Book ReviewTwo decades after its original publication, ... ... Read more

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  • Institutions and Organizations

    Ideas, Interests, and Identities

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    Creating a clear, analytical framework, this comprehensive exploration of the relationship between institutional theory and the study of organizations continues to reflect the richness and diversity of institutional thought—viewed both historically and as a contemporary, ongoing field of study. Drawing on the insights of cultural and organizational sociologists, institutional economists, social ... Read more

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  • Islam

    A Short History

    by Karen Armstrong ...
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    No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil war, and terrorism. Karen Armstrong's short history offers a vital corrective to this narrow view. The distillation of years of thinking and writing about Islam, it demonstrates that the world's ... Read more

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