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1. Cultural Analysis

   The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas

   By Robert Wuthnow, James Davison Hunter, Albert J. Bergesen, Edith Kurzweil

   First published in 1984, Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas. This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Sayyid Qutb Reader

   Selected Writings on Politics, Religion, and Society

   Edited by Albert J. Bergesen

   Anyone who wants to understand what militant Muslims think has to understand what they read—and they read Sayyid Qutb, the intellectual father of Islamic fundamentalism. Qutb, an Egyptian literary critic and philosopher who was appalled by American decadence, gained prominence in the Muslim...

   Published June 29th 2007 by Routledge