Kirstine Sinclair
Biographic Data
| ID | 3809722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirstine Sinclair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirstine |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinclair |
| SIGNATURE | SINCLAIR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Locating the Ideal State: The Practice of Place by Far Right and Islamist Parties
This article explores the co-constitutive practice and conceptualisation of place in political parties at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. Illustrated with examples from the Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir in Denmark (DK) and the Netherlands (NL) and the far right Party for Freedom (NL) and the Danish People’s Party (DK), we seek to better understand the role of place and space in the translation of ideology to practice. With the concept of liv…
On modern Muslim subjectivity formation: Introduction
The medicine chest: Education in the light of Abdel Hakim Murad’s understanding of modernity
This contribution examines the relationship between understandings of modernity, Islam and educational ideals at Cambridge Muslim College (UK) and how such understandings contribute to the formation of meaningful selves amongst the students attending the college. The analysis takes as its point of departure the understanding of modernity of the founder of Cambridge Muslim College – Tim Winter aka Abdal Hakim Murad – as it is expressed in his publ…
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…
Preface: Modern Muslim Subjectivity Formation
An Islamic University in the West and the Question of Modern Authenticity
The aim of this article is to discuss how Islamic universities in the West facilitate and condition the formation of modern Muslim subjectivities in minority contexts, with an emphasis on the institutions as providers of guidelines for good, Muslim minority life. This is done through a case study of Cambridge Muslim College in the UK. Its values and aims are explored through interviews with the founder and dean, faculty members and students, and …
What They Really Want Is a Caliphate! British Salafi Reactions to the Arab Spring
This contribution discusses the lack of references to the success of Salafi parties in the Middle East after the Arab Spring, in Egypt especially, by groups who self-identify as Salafi outside the Middle East. In their interpretation of the uprisings known as the Arab Spring, British Salafis have emphasised that Arab Muslim populations in the Middle East want an Islamic Caliphate despite cries for liberal rights and democracy. The aim of this con…
“Liberal Arts are an Islamic Idea”: Subjectivity Formation at Islamic Universities in The West
The aim of this project is to discuss how Islamic universities in the West facilitate and condition the formation of modern Muslim subjectivities. The central question of the study is: How is the formation of modern forms of subjectivities tied together with the reinterpretation of Islamic traditions? The paper provides analysis of the curricula, and institution background, values and aims of two universities—Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Californ…
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…
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…
Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend
Islam in Britain and Denmark: Deterritorialized Identity and Reterritorialized Agendas
This article is based on case studies of two Muslim groups: Hizb ut-Tahrir and Muslimer i Dialog (Muslims in Dialogue). In the article, basic elements in the ideology and activities of the Islamist and fundamentalist Hizb ut-Tahrir are outlined and the Danish and British sections of the group are compared in terms of agendas, members and image. Furthermore, a comparison between the Danish section of Hizb ut-Tahrir and another and more recent Dani…
Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend
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…
Islam in Britain and Denmark: Deterritorialized Identity and Reterritorialized Agendas
This article is based on case studies of two Muslim groups: Hizb ut-Tahrir and Muslimer i Dialog (Muslims in Dialogue). In the article, basic elements in the ideology and activities of the Islamist and fundamentalist Hizb ut-Tahrir are outlined and the Danish and British sections of the group are compared in terms of agendas, members and image. Furthermore, a comparison between the Danish section of Hizb ut-Tahrir and another and more recent Dani…
An Islamic University in the West and the Question of Modern Authenticity
The aim of this article is to discuss how Islamic universities in the West facilitate and condition the formation of modern Muslim subjectivities in minority contexts, with an emphasis on the institutions as providers of guidelines for good, Muslim minority life. This is done through a case study of Cambridge Muslim College in the UK. Its values and aims are explored through interviews with the founder and dean, faculty members and students, and …
What They Really Want Is a Caliphate! British Salafi Reactions to the Arab Spring
This contribution discusses the lack of references to the success of Salafi parties in the Middle East after the Arab Spring, in Egypt especially, by groups who self-identify as Salafi outside the Middle East. In their interpretation of the uprisings known as the Arab Spring, British Salafis have emphasised that Arab Muslim populations in the Middle East want an Islamic Caliphate despite cries for liberal rights and democracy. The aim of this con…
Islam in Britain and Denmark: Deterritorialized Identity and Reterritorialized Agendas
This article is based on case studies of two Muslim groups: Hizb ut-Tahrir and Muslimer i Dialog (Muslims in Dialogue). In the article, basic elements in the ideology and activities of the Islamist and fundamentalist Hizb ut-Tahrir are outlined and the Danish and British sections of the group are compared in terms of agendas, members and image. Furthermore, a comparison between the Danish section of Hizb ut-Tahrir and another and more recent Dani…
Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend
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…
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…
“Liberal Arts are an Islamic Idea”: Subjectivity Formation at Islamic Universities in The West
The aim of this project is to discuss how Islamic universities in the West facilitate and condition the formation of modern Muslim subjectivities. The central question of the study is: How is the formation of modern forms of subjectivities tied together with the reinterpretation of Islamic traditions? The paper provides analysis of the curricula, and institution background, values and aims of two universities—Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Californ…
What They Really Want Is a Caliphate! British Salafi Reactions to the Arab Spring
This contribution discusses the lack of references to the success of Salafi parties in the Middle East after the Arab Spring, in Egypt especially, by groups who self-identify as Salafi outside the Middle East. In their interpretation of the uprisings known as the Arab Spring, British Salafis have emphasised that Arab Muslim populations in the Middle East want an Islamic Caliphate despite cries for liberal rights and democracy. The aim of this con…
Preface: Modern Muslim Subjectivity Formation
An Islamic University in the West and the Question of Modern Authenticity
The aim of this article is to discuss how Islamic universities in the West facilitate and condition the formation of modern Muslim subjectivities in minority contexts, with an emphasis on the institutions as providers of guidelines for good, Muslim minority life. This is done through a case study of Cambridge Muslim College in the UK. Its values and aims are explored through interviews with the founder and dean, faculty members and students, and …
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…
On modern Muslim subjectivity formation: Introduction
The medicine chest: Education in the light of Abdel Hakim Murad’s understanding of modernity
This contribution examines the relationship between understandings of modernity, Islam and educational ideals at Cambridge Muslim College (UK) and how such understandings contribute to the formation of meaningful selves amongst the students attending the college. The analysis takes as its point of departure the understanding of modernity of the founder of Cambridge Muslim College – Tim Winter aka Abdal Hakim Murad – as it is expressed in his publ…
Locating the Ideal State: The Practice of Place by Far Right and Islamist Parties
This article explores the co-constitutive practice and conceptualisation of place in political parties at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. Illustrated with examples from the Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir in Denmark (DK) and the Netherlands (NL) and the far right Party for Freedom (NL) and the Danish People’s Party (DK), we seek to better understand the role of place and space in the translation of ideology to practice. With the concept of liv…
Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Islamic Studies and History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Islam (7 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works)