Dietrich Jung
Biographic Data
| ID | 3699118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dietrich Jung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dietrich |
| FAMILY NAME | Jung |
| SIGNATURE | JUNG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6230-1007 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Antisemitismusforschung
Religion, Orientalism and Modernity: Mahdi Movements of Iran and South Asia, written by Geoffrey Nash
Der Islam in der globalen Moderne: Soziologische Theorie und die Vielfalt islamischer Modernitäten
Islamism, Islamic Modernism and the Search for Modern Authenticity in an Imaginary Past
How to be authentically modern? This was the pervasive question behind the ideological elaborations of numerous religious and nationalist movements toward the end of the nineteenth century. Many of them attempted to find the answer in an imaginary past. This article claims that Islamist movements are not an exception, but rather an affirmation of this rule. The orientation towards a "golden age" of Islam and its allegedly authentic Islamic way of…
Muslim Subjectivities in Global Modernity: Islamic Traditions and the Construction of Modern Muslim Identities
With critical reference to Eisenstadt’s theory of “multiple modernities,” Muslim Subjectivities in Global Modernity discusses the role of religion in the modern world. The case studies all provide examples illustrating the ambition to understand how Islamic traditions have contributed to the construction of practices and expressions of modern Muslim selfhoods. In doing so, they underpin Eisenstadt’s argument that religious traditions can play a p…
Mohammed A Bamyeh, Lifeworlds of Islam: The Pragmatics of a Religion
Preface: Modern Muslim Subjectivity Formation
Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami, Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (London: Pluto Press, 2016)
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Religion and Multiple Modernities within Islam
This article presents the overarching theoretical framework and some tentative findings of the Modern Muslim Subjectivities Project ( MMSP ). It discusses some of its conceptual tools and presents strategies for studying the role of religion in modern Muslim subjectivity formation. The core rationale of this research program is to explore the role of religious traditions in the construction of modern forms of Muslim subjectivity and social order.…
Hasan Al-Banna and the Modern Muslim Self: Subjectivity Formation and the Search for an Islamic Order in Early 20th-Century Egypt
The Muslim Brotherhood represents an exemplary case for the discussion of Islam and modernity. Founded in 1928 in Egypt by Hasan al-Banna, it developed from a religious movement into a well-organized institution and a cadre party with mass appeal. The Muslim Brotherhood assumed the role of a major social vehicle for the promotion of a specifically Islamic imagination of modernity and related forms of modern Muslim subjectivity. This article explo…
War and State in the Middle East: Reassessing Charles Tilly in a Regional Context1
“States make war and wars make states.” In this simplistic form, the proposition of Charles Tilly certainly makes sense for Middle Eastern state formation. The contemporary political landscape of the Middle East evolved from the violent competition of European powers and its explosion in the First World War. At San Remo in 1922, the victorious war alliance, in particular, Great Britain and France, eventually decided about the distribution of Otto…
Muslim History and Social Theory
The Formation of Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Research Project and Analytical Strategy
This article introduces research questions, theoretical premises and analytical tools on which the Modern Muslim Subjectivities Project (MMSP) builds. The project takes its point of departure in sociological theories on the formation of modern forms of subjectivity and applies these to the Muslim world. The present article discusses three theories in particular: Theories on multiple modernities, theories on successive modernities and post-structu…
The Levant in Turmoil: Syria, Palestine, and the Transformation of Middle Eastern Politics
Since the early weeks of the so-called Arab Spring, high hopes for democratic, social, and political change in the Middle East have been met with varying degrees of frustration. In the sub-region of t
Modernity, Islamic Traditions, and the Good Life: An Outline of the Modern Muslim Subjectivities Project
This article provides a brief overview of the heuristic framework of the Modern Muslim Subjectivities Project that is being conducted at the University of Southern Denmark as of the writing of this article. The project explores ways in which Islamic traditions have played a role in the construction of modern Muslim subjectivities. Applying a problem-driven perspective, it selectively borrows from theories of successive modernities, sociology of r…
Understanding the multiple voices of Islamic modernities: The case of Jihad
In making a contribution to the debate on multiple modernities, this article addresses the growing fragmentation of contemporary interpretations of Islamic religious traditions. It argues that the polysemic nature of these interpretations mirrors to a certain extent the increasing functional differentiation of modern society. To substantiate this argument, the paper will first present a theoretical framework of global modernity that selectively d…
Sociology, Protestant Theology, and the Concept of Modern Religion: William Robertson Smith and the ‘Scientification’ of Religion
This article looks at the intersection between Protestant theology and sociology in the construction of the modern concept of religion. Set against the theoretical background of the functional differentiation of modern society, it identifies the origin of this concept in the discursive ‘scientification’ of religion by the emerging disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. In taking the life and work of William Robertson Smith (1846–94) a…
Multiple modernities, modern subjectivities and social order: Unity and difference in the rise of Islamic modernities
Taking its point of departure in the conceptual debate about modernities in the plural, this article presents a heuristic framework based on an interpretative approach to modernity. The article draws on theories of multiple modernities, successive modernities and poststructuralist approaches to modern subjectivity formation. In combining conceptual tools from these strands of social theory, we argue that the emergence of multiple modernities shou…
Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Islam, Youth, and Social Activism in the Middle East
PART I: THEORETICAL AND ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY ISLAM WITH THE HELP OF SOCIAL THEORY 1. Modernity, Successive Modernities, and the Formation of the Modern Subject 2. Modern Religion, Religious Organizations and Religious Social Action 3. Islamic Reform and the Construction of Modern Muslim Subjectivities PART II: POLITICS OF MUSLIM SUBJECTIVITIES IN JORDAN 4. State and Islam in Jordan: The Contested Islamic Modern 5. Char…
Modernitet og moderniteter: Subjektivitet og social orden i konstruktionen af islamiske moderniteter
Denne artikel ønsker at bidrage til diskussionen af moderniteter i flertal. Argumentet er, at fremkomsten af mangfoldige moderniteter må forstås som resultatet af historiske processer af idiosynkratiske kombinationer af globale, sociale forestillinger med religiøse og andre kulturelle traditioner. Vi tager udgangspunkt i den begrebsmæssige debat om moderniteter i flertal, og det første skridt er en uddybning af vores analytiske ramme. Her udpeger…
The ‘Ottoman-German Jihad ’: Lessons for the Contemporary ‘Area Studies’ Controversy
The ‘Arab Spring’ added new fuel to the ongoing controversy over the validity of regional or area studies. None of the Middle East ‘area experts’ predicted the revolutionary events that led to the fall of a number of authoritarian rulers in the Arab world. As a result, scholars, the media and policy-makers have again questioned the public relevance and scientific nature of Middle East studies. Do they actually provide the basis for an understandi…
We Think That This Job Pleases Allah”: Islamic Charity, Social Order, and the Construction of Modern Muslim Selfhoods in Jordan
This article explores the role of Islam in contemporary Jordanian charities and social welfare organizations. In what ways do these organizations relate to Islamic traditions in their work? What role do religious convictions play in the construction of modern selfhoods among their employees and volunteers? Do these constructions relate to broader, globally relevant, social imaginaries? The article tries to answer these questions by applying a nov…
The Domestic Context of New Activism in Turkish Foreign Policy: Does Religion Matter
The novelty of Turkish foreign is currently on everybody's lips. With catchwords such as power, activism, or the assumption of a new eastern orientation, media pundits and scholars alike discuss the transformation of Ankara's neighbourhood for which the minister of foreign affairs, Ahmet Davutoglu, has coined the slogan of zero-problem policy with Turkey's neighbours. There is no doubt that in comparison with the rather hands-off approach toward …
Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam
In light of the ongoing public debate that focuses on differences between Islam and the West, this book suggests a change of perspective. It departs from the observation that both western Orientalists and Islamist activists have defined Islam similarly as an all-encompassing religious, political and social system. In shifting from differences to similarities, it leaves behind the increasingly circular debate about the “true” nature of Islam in wh…
Edward Said, Michel Foucault og det essentialistiske islambillede
Edward Saids Orientalism blev kendt som en anvendt udgave af Michel Foucaults diskursteori. Said hævdede at være inspireret af især Foucaults Archaeology of Knowledge og Discipline and Punish i sine analyser af det essentialiserede islambillede i orientalistikken. Med udgangspunkt i Saids hævdede inspiration fra Foucault kritiserer denne artikel Orientalism’s teoretiske ramme fra et sociologisk perspektiv. Dermed følger artiklen Sadik al-Azm’s ar…
The Turkish—Israeli Alignment
Turkey and the Arab World: Historical Narratives and New Political Realities
Focusing on Turkish–Arab relations, this article examines the origins of Turkey's negative image in the Middle East. In particular it will shed some light on the complex interplay of actions and perceptions that is behind this image and the way in which geostrategic constraints and stereotypical images have reinforced each other. The study will argue that on both the Turkish and the Arab sides deeply entrenched stereotypes have been reinforced in…
We Think That This Job Pleases Allah”: Islamic Charity, Social Order, and the Construction of Modern Muslim Selfhoods in Jordan
This article explores the role of Islam in contemporary Jordanian charities and social welfare organizations. In what ways do these organizations relate to Islamic traditions in their work? What role do religious convictions play in the construction of modern selfhoods among their employees and volunteers? Do these constructions relate to broader, globally relevant, social imaginaries? The article tries to answer these questions by applying a nov…
The Political Sociology of World Society
In taking up current discussions in IR, the article argues that behind the historical constitution of world society there is the still ongoing process of modernization. Based on sociological authors such as Marx, Elias and Weber, the concept supplements the classical dichotomy between tradition and modernity with Habermas's more recent sociological paradigm of the differentiation between system and lifeworld, thereby focusing on modern state form…
Multiple modernities, modern subjectivities and social order: Unity and difference in the rise of Islamic modernities
Taking its point of departure in the conceptual debate about modernities in the plural, this article presents a heuristic framework based on an interpretative approach to modernity. The article draws on theories of multiple modernities, successive modernities and poststructuralist approaches to modern subjectivity formation. In combining conceptual tools from these strands of social theory, we argue that the emergence of multiple modernities shou…
The ‘Ottoman-German Jihad ’: Lessons for the Contemporary ‘Area Studies’ Controversy
The ‘Arab Spring’ added new fuel to the ongoing controversy over the validity of regional or area studies. None of the Middle East ‘area experts’ predicted the revolutionary events that led to the fall of a number of authoritarian rulers in the Arab world. As a result, scholars, the media and policy-makers have again questioned the public relevance and scientific nature of Middle East studies. Do they actually provide the basis for an understandi…
The Domestic Context of New Activism in Turkish Foreign Policy: Does Religion Matter
The novelty of Turkish foreign is currently on everybody's lips. With catchwords such as power, activism, or the assumption of a new eastern orientation, media pundits and scholars alike discuss the transformation of Ankara's neighbourhood for which the minister of foreign affairs, Ahmet Davutoglu, has coined the slogan of zero-problem policy with Turkey's neighbours. There is no doubt that in comparison with the rather hands-off approach toward …
Globalization, State Formation and Religion in the Middle East: “Is Islam Incompatible with Democracy?”
In conceptualising globalization as the ongoing spread of modernity, this article investigates the relationship between religion and state formation in the Middle East. It combines theoretical reflections on globalization, state formation and religion with some empirical observations on religious politics in the Middle East. In posing the stereotypical and prejudiced question about the compatibility of Islam and democracy, the essay puts into que…
The Turkish—Israeli Alignment
The Political Sociology of World Society
In taking up current discussions in IR, the article argues that behind the historical constitution of world society there is the still ongoing process of modernization. Based on sociological authors such as Marx, Elias and Weber, the concept supplements the classical dichotomy between tradition and modernity with Habermas's more recent sociological paradigm of the differentiation between system and lifeworld, thereby focusing on modern state form…
Contemporary Security Analysis and Copenhagen Peace Research
The Middle East and Palestine: Global Politics and Regional Conflict
Taking issue with the convenient views that the Middle East is an irrational and exceptional region of world politics, and that the long and bloody history of the Palestine conflict is proof, the auth
Globalization, State Formation and Religion in the Middle East: “Is Islam Incompatible with Democracy?”
In conceptualising globalization as the ongoing spread of modernity, this article investigates the relationship between religion and state formation in the Middle East. It combines theoretical reflections on globalization, state formation and religion with some empirical observations on religious politics in the Middle East. In posing the stereotypical and prejudiced question about the compatibility of Islam and democracy, the essay puts into que…
Turkey and the Arab World: Historical Narratives and New Political Realities
Focusing on Turkish–Arab relations, this article examines the origins of Turkey's negative image in the Middle East. In particular it will shed some light on the complex interplay of actions and perceptions that is behind this image and the way in which geostrategic constraints and stereotypical images have reinforced each other. The study will argue that on both the Turkish and the Arab sides deeply entrenched stereotypes have been reinforced in…
New Wars, Old Warriors and Transnational Crime: Reflections on the Transformation of War
Democratization and Development: New Political Strategies for the Middle East
Exploring the political economy of development and democracy in the Middle East, this book provides new insight into the effects of external initiatives for the support of good governance in Arab stat
Islam and Politics: A Fixed Relationship
Edward Said, Michel Foucault og det essentialistiske islambillede
Edward Saids Orientalism blev kendt som en anvendt udgave af Michel Foucaults diskursteori. Said hævdede at være inspireret af især Foucaults Archaeology of Knowledge og Discipline and Punish i sine analyser af det essentialiserede islambillede i orientalistikken. Med udgangspunkt i Saids hævdede inspiration fra Foucault kritiserer denne artikel Orientalism’s teoretiske ramme fra et sociologisk perspektiv. Dermed følger artiklen Sadik al-Azm’s ar…
Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam
In light of the ongoing public debate that focuses on differences between Islam and the West, this book suggests a change of perspective. It departs from the observation that both western Orientalists and Islamist activists have defined Islam similarly as an all-encompassing religious, political and social system. In shifting from differences to similarities, it leaves behind the increasingly circular debate about the “true” nature of Islam in wh…
The Domestic Context of New Activism in Turkish Foreign Policy: Does Religion Matter
The novelty of Turkish foreign is currently on everybody's lips. With catchwords such as power, activism, or the assumption of a new eastern orientation, media pundits and scholars alike discuss the transformation of Ankara's neighbourhood for which the minister of foreign affairs, Ahmet Davutoglu, has coined the slogan of zero-problem policy with Turkey's neighbours. There is no doubt that in comparison with the rather hands-off approach toward …
Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Islam, Youth, and Social Activism in the Middle East
PART I: THEORETICAL AND ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY ISLAM WITH THE HELP OF SOCIAL THEORY 1. Modernity, Successive Modernities, and the Formation of the Modern Subject 2. Modern Religion, Religious Organizations and Religious Social Action 3. Islamic Reform and the Construction of Modern Muslim Subjectivities PART II: POLITICS OF MUSLIM SUBJECTIVITIES IN JORDAN 4. State and Islam in Jordan: The Contested Islamic Modern 5. Char…
Modernitet og moderniteter: Subjektivitet og social orden i konstruktionen af islamiske moderniteter
Denne artikel ønsker at bidrage til diskussionen af moderniteter i flertal. Argumentet er, at fremkomsten af mangfoldige moderniteter må forstås som resultatet af historiske processer af idiosynkratiske kombinationer af globale, sociale forestillinger med religiøse og andre kulturelle traditioner. Vi tager udgangspunkt i den begrebsmæssige debat om moderniteter i flertal, og det første skridt er en uddybning af vores analytiske ramme. Her udpeger…
The ‘Ottoman-German Jihad ’: Lessons for the Contemporary ‘Area Studies’ Controversy
The ‘Arab Spring’ added new fuel to the ongoing controversy over the validity of regional or area studies. None of the Middle East ‘area experts’ predicted the revolutionary events that led to the fall of a number of authoritarian rulers in the Arab world. As a result, scholars, the media and policy-makers have again questioned the public relevance and scientific nature of Middle East studies. Do they actually provide the basis for an understandi…
We Think That This Job Pleases Allah”: Islamic Charity, Social Order, and the Construction of Modern Muslim Selfhoods in Jordan
This article explores the role of Islam in contemporary Jordanian charities and social welfare organizations. In what ways do these organizations relate to Islamic traditions in their work? What role do religious convictions play in the construction of modern selfhoods among their employees and volunteers? Do these constructions relate to broader, globally relevant, social imaginaries? The article tries to answer these questions by applying a nov…
Sociology, Protestant Theology, and the Concept of Modern Religion: William Robertson Smith and the ‘Scientification’ of Religion
This article looks at the intersection between Protestant theology and sociology in the construction of the modern concept of religion. Set against the theoretical background of the functional differentiation of modern society, it identifies the origin of this concept in the discursive ‘scientification’ of religion by the emerging disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. In taking the life and work of William Robertson Smith (1846–94) a…
Multiple modernities, modern subjectivities and social order: Unity and difference in the rise of Islamic modernities
Taking its point of departure in the conceptual debate about modernities in the plural, this article presents a heuristic framework based on an interpretative approach to modernity. The article draws on theories of multiple modernities, successive modernities and poststructuralist approaches to modern subjectivity formation. In combining conceptual tools from these strands of social theory, we argue that the emergence of multiple modernities shou…
The Levant in Turmoil: Syria, Palestine, and the Transformation of Middle Eastern Politics
Since the early weeks of the so-called Arab Spring, high hopes for democratic, social, and political change in the Middle East have been met with varying degrees of frustration. In the sub-region of t
Modernity, Islamic Traditions, and the Good Life: An Outline of the Modern Muslim Subjectivities Project
This article provides a brief overview of the heuristic framework of the Modern Muslim Subjectivities Project that is being conducted at the University of Southern Denmark as of the writing of this article. The project explores ways in which Islamic traditions have played a role in the construction of modern Muslim subjectivities. Applying a problem-driven perspective, it selectively borrows from theories of successive modernities, sociology of r…
Understanding the multiple voices of Islamic modernities: The case of Jihad
In making a contribution to the debate on multiple modernities, this article addresses the growing fragmentation of contemporary interpretations of Islamic religious traditions. It argues that the polysemic nature of these interpretations mirrors to a certain extent the increasing functional differentiation of modern society. To substantiate this argument, the paper will first present a theoretical framework of global modernity that selectively d…
War and State in the Middle East: Reassessing Charles Tilly in a Regional Context1
“States make war and wars make states.” In this simplistic form, the proposition of Charles Tilly certainly makes sense for Middle Eastern state formation. The contemporary political landscape of the Middle East evolved from the violent competition of European powers and its explosion in the First World War. At San Remo in 1922, the victorious war alliance, in particular, Great Britain and France, eventually decided about the distribution of Otto…
Muslim History and Social Theory
The Formation of Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Research Project and Analytical Strategy
This article introduces research questions, theoretical premises and analytical tools on which the Modern Muslim Subjectivities Project (MMSP) builds. The project takes its point of departure in sociological theories on the formation of modern forms of subjectivity and applies these to the Muslim world. The present article discusses three theories in particular: Theories on multiple modernities, theories on successive modernities and post-structu…
Preface: Modern Muslim Subjectivity Formation
Sociology (25 works) · Islamic Studies and History (22 works) · Philosophy (22 works) · Political science (22 works) · Law (19 works) · Epistemology (17 works) · Politics (16 works) · Islam (15 works) · Modernity (15 works) · History (14 works)