Islamic humanism or humanistic Islam?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-101
Author(s):  
Oddbjørn Leirvik
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
Critical Approaches

The article presents and analyses recent books by Muslim authors addressing the issue of humanism in Islam. After some general remarks about humanism and religion (in the current political context), idealist versus critical approaches to the theme of humanism and Islam will be identified. The bulk of the article is dedicated to an analysis of three books by Mouhanad Khorchide, a group of Norwegian reformists, and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd. After a brief consideration on how scriptures is dealt with in idealist and critical approaches, the article concludes with a distinction between “Islamic humanism” and “humanistic Islam.”

scholarly journals Relations of Power and Nonhuman Agency: Critical Theory, Clever Hans, and Other Stories of Horses and Humans

2020 ◽  
pp. 073112142092189
Author(s):  
Helen Wadham
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Domestic Animal ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Human World ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Nonhuman Agency ◽  
Relations Of Power

Critical Theory pioneered the theorization of human-animal relations, helping establish that agency extends beyond the human world. Nonhuman agency is now widely accepted within the “new materialisms” and beyond but there are growing calls for more critical approaches that consider why and how such agency is mobilized. These calls effectively bring together the concerns of “old” and “new” materialisms. I therefore return to Critical Theory, bringing its explanatory analysis, practical framework and future imaginary into conversation with more recent research into nonhuman agency. Together, they reveal how the relations between human and nonhuman actors shape and are shaped by their broader socio-political context. I suggest that paying closer attention to human-domestic animal relations in particular might help us resolve some of the issues at stake. Consequently, for illustrations to extend the analysis, the article turns to horses, a nonhuman group who occupy a unique place in our collective unconscious.

Editorial: Transnational Marketing

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Sirkeci
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Organization Structures ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Resource Environment

Transnational Marketing Journal is a new scholarly, peer-reviewed journal is dedicated to disseminating high quality contemporary research into transnational marketing practices and scholarship while encouraging critical approaches in the development of marketing theory and practice. It is an exciting new venture for us and we would like to invite innovative thinking, scholarship, and current research into marketing practices and challenges crossing national borders.In Transnational Marketing and Transnational Consumers, Transnational Marketing is defined “as understanding and addressing customer needs, wants and desires in their own country of residence and beyond and in borderless cultural contexts with the help of synergies emerging across national boundaries and transfer of expertise and advantages between markets where the organization operates transnationally with a transnational mentality supported by transnational organization structures and without compromising the sustainability of any target markets and resource environment offering satisfactory exchanges between the parties involved” (Sirkeci, 2013: vii).

Situating the Blair Membership Boom Within its Social and Political Context

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (First Serie (1) ◽  
pp. 47-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Bond
Keyword(s):  
Political Context
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