87. Islam and Democracy: What is the Real Question?

Abstract

A major preoccupation of nineteenth century social theorists was to dispel the distinction between the religious and the non -religious. Now, after over a century of modernization, they are trying to differentiate between the religious and the more religious. This “over-religiosity”, nowadays couched in various terms such as fundamentalism, revivalism, conservatism, fanaticism or extremism, appears to represent a global trend, which involves most of the world&s;s major creeds. Yet in the West it has shaped a particular, negative thinking about Muslim societies in particular.

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