| Titre | Islam et culturalisme | |
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| Auteur | Saïd Tamba, Bernard Hours | |
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Revue | L'Homme et la société |
| Numéro | no 95-96, 1er et 2e trimestre 1990 Mission et démission des sciences sociales | |
| Page | 143-153 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Bernard Hours, Saïd Tamba, Islam and Culturalism
The image of Islam in western societies evolves slowly, but at times seems to go through a revolution. Presently, under the influence of a certain culturalism, Islam is reduced to a sum of cultural practices ; it is « Islamic culture » that is discussed and not the religion of the muslims. From another perspective, orientalism has always straddled science and politics, thus provoking interrogation about its methods. The objects that it constructs are not independant of power relations, and discussion of them in the West must be analyzed in terms of their historical and ideological contexts. From « colonial romanticism » to contemporary culturalism, Islam is still isolated and reified. From the reduction of foreign practices to exoticism, to the rationalization of « cultural differences », the West seems, with the help of journalistic simplifications, to be incapable of truly communicating with Islam. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/homso_0018-4306_1990_num_95_1_2464 |
