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Armando Salvatore is Associate Professor, Sociology of Culture and Communication,Oriental Studies University, Naples, and Heisenberg Fellow, Institute of
Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin, and Institute for Advanced Study in
the Humanities, Essen. His present research explores the symbolic, political and
practical nexus between religious traditions and secular formations across Eurasia.
His latest books are
Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates (co-edited, 2009)and
The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam (2007). Address: Universitàdegli Studi di Napoli – L’Orientale, Department of Studies and Research on
Africa and the Arab World, Palazzo Corigliano, Piazza San Domenico Maggiore,
12, I-80134 Napoli, Italy. [email: salvatore@fosr.net]
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