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In 1742, the parish of Cambuslang located outside of Glasgow, Scotland experienced a religious revival that brought tens of thousands of men and women to the region in search of God, community, or respite from the routine of daily living. What they found was a movement at the cr…

The contemporary religious revival in Turkey suggests the emergence of a new Islamic identity, which I term as "Muslimism". Neither a liberal adaptation nor a fundamentalist rejection, Muslimism is a hybrid identity embracing modern life while submitting that life to a sacred, m…

Observers of political Islam often question the movement's prospects: Will it soon sweep aside discredited governments or is it a spent force? This dissertation explores the confines of political Islam as a system of thought by analyzing the ideological formulations of Islamism …