Contemporary Developments In Indonesian Islam

Author : Martin van Bruinessen
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814414562

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Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam by Martin van Bruinessen Pdf

"Once celebrated in the Western media as a shining example of a 'liberal' and 'tolerant' Islam, Indonesia since the end of the Soeharto regime (May 1998) has witnessed a variety of developments that bespeak a conservative turn in the country's Muslim politics. In this timely collection of original essays, Martin van Bruinessen, our most distinguished senior Western scholar of Indonesian Islam, and four leading Indonesian Muslim scholars explore and explain these developments. Each chapter examines recent trends from a strategic institutional perch: the Council of Indonesian Muslim scholars, the reformist Muhammadiyah, South Sulawesi's Committee for the Implementation of Islamic Shari'a, and radical Islamism in Solo. With van Bruinessen's brilliantly synthetic introduction and conclusion, these essays shed a bright light on what Indonesian Muslim politics was and where it seems to be going. The analysis is complex and by no means uniformly dire. For readers interested in Indonesian Muslim politics, and for analysts interested in the dialectical interplay of progressive and conservative Islam, this book is fascinating and essential reading." -Robert Hefner, Director Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University

Author : M. Barry Hooker
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824827589

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Indonesian Islam by M. Barry Hooker Pdf

Indonesian Islam is an important and timely book based on approximately 2,000 fatwâ (pl. fatâwâ)--an opinion on a point of law or dogma given by a person with recognized authority (ijâza)--demonstrating that classical Islamic reasoning is an alternative to state-defined Islam and is capable of dealing with contemporary challenges in ethics and morality in a consistent and rational way. The book provides a comprehensive survey of how modern Indonesian Islamic thinking has responded to changes in social practices since the 1920s, and how authorities have ruled on diverse subjects ranging from football pools to land sales and milk banks. The author examines in detail the development and nuances of Islamic thinking, both by reference to local tradition and comparatively, by reference to the classical Arabian texts, therefore providing an important contribution to deepening popular understanding of Islam in Indonesia. The author's detailed analysis of fatwâ is unprecedented in the study of Indonesian Islam. To date there is no comparable analysis of modern fatwâ available in book form anywhere in the world, making this volume an invaluable resource for anyone who studies Indonesia. Professor Hooker describes the fatwâ as method and doctrine, religious duty, the status and obligation of women, Islam and medical science, offences against religion, and issues specific to Indonesian Islam. Responses to fatwâ cover such contemporary issues as abortion, organ transplants, insurance, and the status of women. For sale in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand by NUS Press (Singapore)

Author : Greg Fealy,Sally White
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812308511

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Expressing Islam by Greg Fealy,Sally White Pdf

As the forces of globalisation and modernisation buffet Islam and other world religions, Indonesia's 200 million Muslims are expressing their faith in ever more complex ways. This book examines some of the ways in which Islam is expressed in contemporary Indonesian life and politics. Editors from Australian National University.

Author : Amelia Fauzia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004233973

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Faith and the State by Amelia Fauzia Pdf

Faith and the State offers a historical development of Islamic philanthropy from the time of the Islamic monarchs, through the period of Dutch colonialism and up to contemporary Indonesia.

Author : B.J. Bolland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004286894

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The Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia by B.J. Bolland Pdf

Author : Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824893033

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Islamizing Intimacies by Nancy J. Smith-Hefner Pdf

One of the great transformations presently sweeping the Muslim world involves not just political and economic change but the reshaping of young Muslims’ styles of romance, courtship, and marriage. Nancy J. Smith-Hefner takes up the personal lives and sexual attitudes of educated Muslim Javanese youth in the city of Yogyakarta to explore the dramatic social and ethical changes taking place in Indonesian society. Drawing on more than 250 interviews over a fifteen-year period, her vivid, well-crafted ethnography is full of insights into the real-life struggles of young Muslims and framed by a deep understanding of Indonesia’s wider debates on gender and youth culture. The changes among Muslim youth reflect an ongoing if at times unsteady attempt to balance varied ideals, ethical concerns, and aspirations. On the one hand, growing numbers of young people show a deep and pervasive desire for a more active role in their Islamic faith. On the other, even as they seek a more self-conscious and scripture-based profession of faith, many educated youth aspire to personal relationships similar to those seen among youth elsewhere—a greater measure of informality, openness, and intimacy than was typical for their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. Young women in particular seek freedom for self-expression, employment, and social fulfillment outside of the home. Smith-Hefner pays particular attention to their shifting roles and perspectives because it is young women who have been most dramatically affected by the upheavals transforming this Muslim-majority country. Although deeply personal, the changing aspirations of young Muslims have immense implications for social and public life throughout Indonesia. The fruit of a longitudinal study begun shortly after the fall of the authoritarian New Order government and the return to democracy in 1998–1999, the book reflects Smith-Hefner’s nearly forty years of anthropological engagement with the island of Java and her continuing exploration into what it means to be both “modern” and Muslim. The culture of the new Muslim youth, the author shows, through all its nuances and variations, reflects the inexorable abandonment of traditions and practices deemed incompatible with authentic Islam and an ongoing and profound Islamization of intimacies.

Author : Jajat Burhanudin,Kees van Dijk
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789089644237

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Islam in Indonesia by Jajat Burhanudin,Kees van Dijk Pdf

While Muslims in Indonesia have begun to turn towards a strict adherence to Islam, the reality of the socio-religious environment is much more complicated than a simple shift towards fundamentalism. In this volume, contributors explore the multifaceted role of Islam in Indonesia from a variety of different perspectives, drawing on carefully compiled case studies. Topics covered include religious education, the increasing number of Muslim feminists in Indonesia, the role of Indonesia in the greater Muslim world, social activism and the middle class, and the interaction between Muslim radio and religious identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781501727870

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Author : Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789971698423

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Indonesian Women and Local Politics by Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi Pdf

In an important social change, female Muslim political leaders in Java have enjoyed considerable success in direct local elections following the fall of Suharto in Indonesia. Indonesian Women and Local Politics shows that Islam, gender, and social networks have been decisive in their political victories. Islamic ideas concerning female leadership provide a strong religious foundation for their political campaigns. However, their approach to women's issues shows that female leaders do not necessarily adopt a woman's perspectives when formulating policies. This new trend of Muslim women in politics will continue to shape the growth and direction of democratization in local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia and will color future discourse on gender, politics, and Islam in contemporary Southeast Asia.

Author : R. Michael Feener,Mark E. Cammack
Publisher : Islamic Legal Studies Program @ Harvard Law School
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015073655923

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Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia by R. Michael Feener,Mark E. Cammack Pdf

The essays in this volume provide focused examinations of the internal dynamics of intellectual and institutional Islamic law in modern Indonesia, together offering a substantive introduction to important developments in both the theory and practice of law in the world's most populous Muslim society.

Author : Thomas B. Pepinsky,R. William Liddle,Saiful Mujani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190697808

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Piety and Public Opinion by Thomas B. Pepinsky,R. William Liddle,Saiful Mujani Pdf

Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people. Observers of these changes struggle to understand the consequences of an Islamic resurgence in a democratizing world. Will democratic political participation by an increasingly religious population lead to victories by Islamists at the ballot box? Will more conspicuously pious Muslims participate in politics and markets in a fundamentally different way than they had previously? Will a renewed attention to Islam lead Muslim democracies to reevaluate their place in the global community of states, turning away from alignments with the West or the Global South and towards an Islamic civilizational identity? The answers to all of these questions depend, at least in part, on what ordinary Muslims think and do. In order to provide these answers, the authors of this book look to Indonesia--the world's largest Muslim country and one of the world's only consolidated Muslim democracies. They draw on original public opinion data to explore how religiosity and religious belief translate into political and economic behavior at the individual level. Across various issue areas--support for democracy or Islamic law, partisan politics, Islamic finance, views about foreign engagement--they find no evidence that the religious orientations of Indonesian Muslims have any systematic relationships with their political preferences or economic behavior. The broad conclusion is that scholars of Islam, in Indonesia and elsewhere, must understand religious life and individual piety as part of a larger and more complex set of social transformations. These transformations include modernization, economic development, and globalization, each of which has occurred in parallel with Islamic revivalism throughout the world. Against the common assumption that piety would naturally inhibit any tendencies towards modernity, democracy, or cosmopolitanism, Piety and Public Opinion reveals the complex and subtle links between religion and political beliefs in a critically important Muslim democracy.

Author : Arskal Salim,Azyumardi Azra
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Droit islamique - Indonésie - Aspect politique
ISBN : 9789812301888

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Shari'a and Politics in Modern Indonesia by Arskal Salim,Azyumardi Azra Pdf

After the fall of President Soeharto, there have been heightened attempts by certain groups of Muslims to have sharia (Islamic law) implemented by the state. Even though this burning issue is not new, it has further divided Indonesian Muslims. The introduction of Islamic law would also affect the future of multi-cultural and multi-religious Indonesia. So far, however, the introduction of sharia nationwide has been opposed by the majority of Indonesian Muslims. This book gives an overview of sharia from post-Independence in 1945 to the most recent developments in Indonesia at the start of the new millennium.

Author : Carool Kersten
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748681877

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History of Islam in Indonesia by Carool Kersten Pdf

Explores the history of Islam in the largest Muslim nation state in the worldLocated on the eastern periphery of the historical Muslim world, as a political entity Indonesia is barely a century old. Yet with close to a quarter of a billion followers of Islam it is now the largest and most populous Muslim country in the world. As the greatest political power in Southeast Asia, and a growing player on the world scene, Indonesia presents itself as a bridge country between Asia, the wider Muslim world and the West.In this survey Carool Kersten presents the Islamisation of Indonesia from the first evidence of the acceptance of Islam by indigenous peoples in the late thirteenth century until the present day. He provides comprehensive insight into the different roles played by Islam in Indonesia throughout history, including the importance of Indian Ocean networks for connecting Indonesians with the wider Islamic world, the religions role as a means of resistance and tool for nation building, and postcolonial attempts to forge an aIndonesian Islam.Key FeaturesThe first comprehensive historical survey of the Islamisation of Indonesia from the arrival of Islam in the 13th century until the presentAn interdisciplinary study of the place and role of Islam in IndonesiaAn overview of the religions growing significance in the formation of what is now the largest and most populous Muslim country in the world

Author : Fauzan Saleh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004123059

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Modern Trends in Islamic Theological Discourse in 20th Century Indonesia by Fauzan Saleh Pdf

This book provides new information abtout the development of Indonesian Muslims' thinking on issues of theology. This theological thought, especially as reflected in the works of the modernist Muslim thinkers, may be seen as a nascent systematic attempt to draw up the essential beliefs of Islam in Indonesian historical and cultural contexts.

Author : Diah Ariani Arimbi
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789089640895

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Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers by Diah Ariani Arimbi Pdf

A study that discusses the construction of gender and Islamic identities in literary writing by four prominent Indonesian Muslim women writers: Titis Basino P I, Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy and Helvy Tiana Rosa.