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I Danmark har vi traditionelt taenkt universiteternes femårige kandidat-uddannelser som sammenhaengende forløb, hvor den studerende gradvist opbygger en stadig mere specialiseret viden inden for et givet fagområde. Denne idé om... more
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A short anecdote-like explanation of the many vagaries and anthropologist may run in to while in the field. Wilken, for one, was an ideal stranger to confide in since she was an insider and yet not part of strained social relations. But... more
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I det seneste tiår er der sket store forandringer i Europa. Den Kolde Krig er slut, Berlinmuren revet ned, Sovjetunionen opløst, Tyskland genforenet, Tjekkoslovakiet delt, Jugo slavien splittet, og store dele af Vesteuropa er forenet i en... more
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Lena Gerholm & Thomas Gerholm: Doktorshatten: En studie av forskarutbildningen inom sex discipliner vid Stockholms Universitet Anmeldes af Lisanne Wilken
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      Saudi ArabiaIslamic StudiesSufism
This paper and the subsequent article have in most respects been superseded by Mark Sedgwick, Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004),... more
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This article examines the nature of religious terrorism, principally with reference to al-Qaeda. It argues that a distinction must be made between the ultimate aims and the immediate objectives of ‘religious’ terrorists, and that while... more
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      TerrorismInternational SecurityIslamic Studies
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      ReligionTheory of ReligionIslamic Studies
This article examines the causes of terrorism at a global level. It also reexamines the chronology of terrorism since the nineteenth century. It argues that local causes cannot explain global waves, and that while ideology is a necessary... more
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Responding to the articles of Jeff Kenney, Amira Sonbol, and William Shepard, Mark Sedgwick first modifies his original typology to include William Shepard's proposed category of "establishment." While applauding many of Jeff Kenney's... more
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This essay introduces this special issue of Nova Religio by examining the main varieties of jihad and the main varieties of Islamism, and also by exploring the overlap between scholarship on terrorism and scholarship on NRMs. Three... more
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