Bøger af Olivier Roy

Den franske sociolog, Olivier Roy, har siden 1980erne været en af den vestlige verdens mest originalt tænkende islamforskere. Flere af hans bøger er kommet i dansk oversættelse, og nu udkommer hans værk, Jihad og døden, hvori han gør opmærksom på det mærkelige fænomen, at en stor andel af de islamister, der begår terrorhandlinger eller kæmper for islamisk stat, ikke synes særlig religiøst optaget. Derimod søger de døden.Hvordan har ISIS kunnet mobilisere støtte fra store dele af verden og kunnet tiltrække titusinder af frivillige , hvoriblandt mange konvertitter?Olivier Roy foreslår, at vi ikke kun står over for en global islamistisk vækkelse, men at islamismen også må ses som en global nihilistisk ungdomskult med døden som fixpunkt. Derved ligner islamismen andre radikale ungdomsbevægelser, der også forkaster grundlæggende moderne værdier og livsformer. Med Roys ord, så står vi ikke over for en radikalisering af Islam, men af en islamisering af radikalismen. Med forord af Jakob Sheikh.

Olivier Roys bog er den tredje udgivelse i Carsten Niebuhr Biblioteket, en bogserie om islamisk kultur, som forlaget Vandkunsten udsender for C.L.Davids Fond og Samling og Carsten Niebuhr Instituttet ved Københavns Universitet. Seriens første bind var Carsten Niebuhrs Rejseberetning fra Arabien og andre omkringliggende lande, andet bind var Michael Cook: Koranen. En meget kort introduktion.

Europa har i årtier debatteret sin kristne identitet i lyset af indvandring og sekularisering. I Er Europa kristent? spørger Olivier Roy: I hvilken forstand er vi europæere stadig kristne? Er islam og sekulariseringen af samfundet virkelig de alvorligste trusler mod kontinentets kristne værdier? Er det snarere religiøsiteten, og ikke kristendommen, der er under pres? Er vi i færd med at reducere kristendommen til identitet og politisk kultur, hvis vigtigste symboler er homoægteskaber, abort og aktiv dødshjælp? Er Europa kristent? handler om de betingelser, vi lever under som moderne arvinger til en kristen fortid. I følge Olivier Roy må vi europæere søge tilbage til værdierne i det liberale samfund og det, der er tilbage af den kristne erindring. Er Europa kristent? bekræfter endnu en gang Olivier Roys position som en skarp iagttager af tiden.

In this book-length interview, Olivier Roy, a leading expert on political Islam, tells the story of how his many adventures and discoveries have shaped his understanding of the Islamic world. In Search of the Lost Orient is both a significant intellectual autobiography and a compelling travelogue.

Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root. This book explores the options available to powers that hope to integrate or control these groups; and whether marginalization or homogenization will further divide believers from their culture.

In this new edition, Olivier Roy expands his penetrating study of the history, ideology and structures of the Afghan resistance movement to mid-1989. The situation created by the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan is also explored, and in a new conclusion Professor Roy assesses to what extent the war has altered the traditional fabric of Afghan society.

Argues that Islamic revival, or "re-Islamization," results from the efforts of westernized Muslims to assert their identity in a non-Muslim context. This book provides a comparison of several transnational movements, whether peaceful, like Tablighi Jama'at and the Islamic brotherhoods, or violent, like Al Qaeda.

The denunciation of fundamentalism in France, embodied in the law against the veil and the deportation of imams, has shifted into a systematic attack on all Muslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot be integrated into French and, consequently, secular and liberal-society. However, as Olivier Roy makes clear in this book, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live concretely in a secularized world while maintaining the identity of a "e;true believer."e; They have formulated a language that recognizes two spaces: that of religion and that of secular society.Western society is unable to recognize this process, Roy argues, because of a cultural bias that assumes religious practice is embedded within a specific, traditional culture that must be either erased entirely or forced to coexist in a neutral, multicultural space. Instead, Roy shows that new forms of religiosity, such as Islamic fundamentalism and Christian evangelicalism, have come to thrive in post-traditional, secular contexts precisely because they remain detached from any cultural background. In recognizing this, Roy recasts the debate concerning Islam and democracy. Analyzing the French case in particular, in which the tension between Islam and the conception of Western secularism is exacerbated, Roy makes important distinctions between Arab and non-Arab Muslims, hegemony and tolerance, and the role of the umma and the sharia in Muslim religious life. He pits Muslim religious revivalism against similar movements in the West, such as evangelical Protestantism and Jehovah's Witnesses, and refutes the myth of a single "e;Muslim community"e; by detailing different groups and their inability to overcome their differences. Roy's rare portrait of the realities of immigrant Muslim life offers a necessary alternative to the popular specter of an "e;Islamic threat."e; Supporting his arguments with his extensive research on Islamic history, sociology, and politics, Roy brilliantly demonstrates the limits of our understanding of contemporary Islamic religious practice in the West and the role of Islam as a screen onto which Western societies project their own identity crisis.

Everything you need to know about how Islamic State attracts new followers, by a world-renowned sociologist of Islam.

Roy demonstrates that the Islamic Fundamentalism of today is still the Third Worldism of the 1960s: populist politics and mixed economies of laissez-faire for the rich and subsidies for the poor. In Roy's formulation, those marching today beneath Islam's green banners are the same as the "reds" of yesterday, with similarly dim prospects of success.

Investigates the emergence of a militant deterritorialized Islam that has fewer links to any particular country and/or culture. This book argues that mainstream Islamist movements in the Muslim world have become Islamo-nationalist, recasting their political action within a national framework (e.g. the Hamas of Palestine, the Hezbullah of Lebanon).