- Titel
- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and Niklas Luhmann
- Untertitel
- Boundary Negotiations Between Religion and Science in the Abbasid Empire
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-868449
- Schriftenreihe
- Working paper series of the HCAS 'Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities
- Bandnummer
- 26
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2022
- ISSN
- 2700-5518
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.36730/2020.1.msbwbm.26
- Abstract (EN)
- In the context of my involvement with the CASHSS Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities’ research programme, I chose Ghazali’s autobiography, and in particular his “crisis of indecision,” as an example of a pre-modern negotiation of the boundaries of religion at the micro level. The research programme suggests employing the analytical concept of secularity to investigate both non-Western and pre-modern forms of secularity, in terms of conceptual distinctions and institutional differentiations between religious and non-religious social spheres. In this essay, I would like to propose a method of pursuing these goals from my own theoretical perspective. More specifically, I will argue that in Ghazali’s reflections on spiritual religiosity, theology, philosophy and science, we can discern the individual engagement of a prominent Muslim thinker with emerging communicative realms. In the Modern Systems Theory of Niklas Luhmann, these realms are taken to represent functionally differentiated subsystems of modern society.
- Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Islam, Religion, Kultur, Säkularität, Systemtheorie
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Islam, religion, culture, secularity, system theory
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 200
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- Kolleg-Forschergruppe 'Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- eingereichte Version / Preprint
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-868449
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 14.08.2023
- Dokumenttyp
- Forschungsbericht
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
