Sociology and Comparative Politics

Comparative Sociology , 1950 - 1963

Comparative Semantics of Sin in Quran and Sociology

The specialists’ concerns in the field of culture regarding the imported sciences and negligence or perhaps moral nihilism exposure of a considerable portion of the Islamic society to sins shows the importance of exploring the meaning and concept of sin in the religious literature (Quran) in comparison with the equivalent idiomatic concept of sin in sociology and obtaining the similarities and ...

Religion and Comparative Politics

■ Abstract Although scholars tend to downplay the role of religion in political life, the vast majority of people in the world profess a strong allegiance to some spiritual faith. Secularization theory has long held that religion would become irrelevant, leading many comparative scholars to ignore this potentially significant variable. A recent resurgence in religious fundamentalism and “new re...

Comparative politics

A Decolonial Imagination: Sociology, Anthropology and The Politics of Reality

While the recent proliferation of sociological engagements with postcolonial thought is important and welcome, central to most critiques of Eurocentrism is a concern with the realm of epistemology, with how sociology comes to know its objects of study. Such a concern, however, risks perpetuating another form of Eurocentrism, one that is responsible for instituting the very distinction between e...