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ajiss-2630	Abu-Rabi', Ibrahim M.	Islam and the Cultural Accommodation of Social Change: By Bassam Tibi. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990, 272pp	1991.0	2	.pdf	application/pdf	573	24	46	In a previous work entitled The Crisis ofModem Islam, Bassam Tibi argues for the understanding of religion in the social process as it is incor- porated into reality as a social fact. Tibi’s new mentor is the bourgeois anthropologist Clifford Geertz, who in the late 1960s wrote an essay on “Religion as a Cultural System,” in which he defines religion in the following terms: Religion is: (1) a system of symbols which acts to (2) establish power- ful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in man by (3) for- mulating conceptions of a general order of existence and (4) clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that ( 5 ) the moods of motivations seem uniquely realistic.	cache/ajiss-2630.pdf	txt/ajiss-2630.txt