the puritans errand into the wilderness reconsidered

This interconnection between the social agents’ desire for a specific lifestyle (manhaj) and their utopian visions of it is revealed in the elective affinities between these two “forces.” The article offers a deeper insight into the motivational dynamics and Salafi subjectivities of this global movement's emotional capital, one of its trademarks.

This article explores these affinities through a critical analysis of the discursive nexus between a regimented religious lifestyle and utopian visions of “the perfect community.” It further suggests that this nexus represents one of the central motivational forces behind much of its adherents’ current activism. Despite the current mass-production of analyses and descriptions, little serious attention has been given to the affinities that some adolescent Muslims have for this kind of religious life. Bearing this in mind, one cannot help but wonder why some young Muslims are attracted to the supposed religio-anarchism and chaos that makes up its worldview. In the minds of the general public, Salafism is a radical reactionary movement comprised of fundamentalists motivated by a nitpicking religious zeal. On the relationships between Puritanism, Calvinism and other ascetic Protestantism on the one hand and modern democratic society Overall, the paper aims to contribute to the existing literature

Liberty equivalence as a myth are relatively infrequent. The paperĪims to fill in a void in the current sociological literature in which attempts to question and reveal the Puritanism and Sociologists call the “beloved myth” of an elective affinity or connection between Calvinism and modern capitalism. Liberal-democratic mythology analogous and related to, as well as even more enduring and prevalent than, what contemporary It arguesĪnd elaborates on that the “Puritanism and liberty” equation or link is a naïve assumption, speculative explanation or cherished Puritanism and liberty in historically Puritan societies, especially America and to a lesser extent Great Britain. This paper revisits and reconsiders the prevailing assumption or conventional wisdom about the association or affinity between

The puritans errand into the wilderness reconsidered