Politics And Cultures Of Islamization In Southeast Asia

Author : Georg Stauth
Publisher : Transcript Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015056510814

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Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia by Georg Stauth Pdf

This book is about cultural and political figures, institutions and ideas in a period of transition in two Muslim countries in Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia. It also addresses some of the permutations of civilizing processes in Singapore and the city-state's image, moving across its borders into the region and representing a miracle of modernity beyond ideas. The central theme is the way in which Islam was re-constructed as an intellectual and socio-political tradition in Southeast Asia in the nineteen-nineties. Scholars who approach Islam both as a textual and local tradition, students who take the heartlands of Islam as imaginative landscapes for cultural transformation and politicians and institutions which have been concerned with transmitting the idea of Islamization are the subjects of this inquiry into different patterns of modernity in a tropical region still bearing the signature of a colonial past.

Author : Robert W. Hefner,Patricia Horvatich
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780824863029

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Islam in an Era of Nation-States by Robert W. Hefner,Patricia Horvatich Pdf

The renewal of the Muslim faith, which has occurred not only in Asia but in other parts of the world, has prompted warnings of an imminent "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West. Islam in an Era of Nation-States examines the history, politics, and meanings of this resurgence in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines and explores its implications for Southeast Asia, the larger Muslim world, and the West. This volume will be of interest to students of Islam, Southeast Asian history, and the anthropology of religion. In examining the politics and meanings of Islamic resurgence, it will also speak to political scientists, religious scholars, and others concerned with culture and politics in the late modern era.

Author : Robert W. Hefner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780824863463

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Making Modern Muslims by Robert W. Hefner Pdf

When students from a Muslim boarding school were convicted for the 2002 terrorist bombings in Bali, Islamic schools in Southeast Asia became the focus of intense international scrutiny. Some analysts have warned that these schools are being turned into platforms for violent jihadism. Making Modern Muslims is the first book to look comparatively at Islamic education and politics in Southeast Asia. Based on a two-year research project by leading scholars of Southeast Asian Islam, the book examines Islamic schooling in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and the southern Philippines. The studies demonstrate that the great majority of schools have nothing to do with violence but are undergoing changes that have far-reaching implications for democracy, gender relations, pluralism, and citizenship. Making Modern Muslims offers an important reassessment of Muslim culture and politics in Southeast Asia and provides insights into the changing nature of state-society relations from the late colonial period to the present. It allows us to better appreciate the astonishing dynamism of Islamization in Southeast Asia and the struggle for Muslim hearts and minds taking place today. Timely and readable, this volume will be of great interest to teachers and specialists of Islam and Southeast Asia as well as the general reader seeking to understand the great transformations at work in the Muslim world. Contributors: Esmael A. Abdula, Bjørn Atle Blengsli, Joseph Chinyong Liow, Robert W. Hefner, Richard G. Kraince, Thomas M. McKenna.

Author : Joseph A. Camilleri,Sven Schottmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415625265

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Culture, Religion and Conflict in Muslim Southeast Asia by Joseph A. Camilleri,Sven Schottmann Pdf

By examining the sometimes surprising and unexpected roles that culture and religion have played in mitigating or exacerbating conflicts, this book explores the cultural repertoires from which Southeast Asian political actors have drawn to negotiate the pluralism that has so long been characteristic of the region. Focusing on the dynamics of identity politics and the range of responses to the socio-political challenges of religious and ethnic pluralism, the authors assembled in this book illuminate the principal regional discourses that attempt to make sense of conflict and tensions. They examine local notions of "dialogue," "reconciliation," "civility" and "conflict resolution" and show how varying interpretations of these terms have informed the responses of different social actors across Southeast Asia to the challenges of conflict, culture and religion. The book demonstrates how stumbling blocks to dialogue and reconciliation can and have been overcome in different parts of Southeast Asia and identifies a range of actors who might be well placed to make useful contributions, propose remedies, and initiate action towards negotiating the region's pluralism. This book provides a much needed regional and comparative analysis that makes a significant contribution to a better understanding of the interfaces between region and politics in Southeast Asia.

Author : Yew-Foong Hui
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789814379922

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Encountering Islam by Yew-Foong Hui Pdf

This volume seeks to introduce and deepen the understanding of Islam and its role in politics as encountered in different national and transnational contexts in Southeast Asia, eschewing the neo-orientalist approach that has informed public discourse in recent years. In Encountering Islam, the book lingers beyond the summary moment and reflects on the multiple impressions, suppressions and repressions, whether coherent or incoherent, associated with Islam as a socio-political force in public life. To this end, it is not adequate simply to represent the divergent identities associated with Islam in Southeast Asia, whether embedded in state-endorsed orthodoxy or Islamic movements that contest such orthodoxy. It is also important to examine religious minorities in political contexts where Islam is dominant and Muslim communities in national contexts where they are minorities. By situating these religious identities within their larger socio-political contexts, this volume seeks to provide a more holistic understanding of what is encountered as Islam in Southeast Asia.

Author : Vidhu Verma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199098767

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Secularism, Religion, and Democracy in Southeast Asia by Vidhu Verma Pdf

Until the 1990s, secularism was understood largely as exclusion of religion from the public domain. However, in the last two decades, the world has witnessed the return of religion as a medium and subject of national, regional, and global politics. With such a shift, the previously unquestioned Western values of modernity and secularism find themselves at loggerheads with the increasing assertion of religious identity, which results in difference-based conflicts. This antagonism also gives rise to a vibrant, religiously pluralistic civil society and speaks of a post-secular turn in modern Southeast Asian democracies. Secularism, Religion, and Democracy in Southeast Asia tries to understand the rise of religion in modern democracies and how everyday economic, social, and political conditions aid this post-secular phenomenon in Southeast Asia. Setting itself apart from most studies of religion in Southeast Asia through its regional focus, this volume explores the ideas, practices, state responses, and anxieties related to the religious–secular divide in this geopolitical region.

Author : K S Nathan,Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9812302832

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Islam in Southeast Asia by K S Nathan,Mohammad Hashim Kamali Pdf

Examines the role, relevance and challenges, as well as the political and strategic dimensions of Islam in contemporary Southeast Asia.

Author : Hussin Mutalib
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789812307583

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Islam in Southeast Asia by Hussin Mutalib Pdf

Islam is a major religion in Southeast Asia, with Indonesian Muslims comprising the largest Muslim population in the world. Events and developments since 11 September 2001 have added greater attention to Islam and its adherents in this part of the world. This general survey of Islam in Southeast Asia is intended to inform, explain and update readers about the more significant aspects of Islam in Southeast Asia, then and now. These include the following: the geographical origins and sources by which the faith spread in this region; the social, economic and political profiles of the Muslim communities; relations between Muslims and non-Muslims and between Muslims and the State; the strands and trends that shapes the role of Islam and the Muslims in the national body politic; and the challenges confronting Muslims in confronting the vicissitudes of their lives in this era of rapid change, characterized by modernization, capitalism, secularization and globalization. The discussion will begin with an overview of the broad picture of Islam and the Muslims in the region as a whole, covering both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority countries. This will be followed by case-study analysis of Islam and the Muslims in individual countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Given the difficulty of writing on such a complex and contentious topic, this book attempts to present the subject matter in a manner that is sufficiently objective to scholars and yet simple and accessible enough to be readily understood by ordinary readers.

Author : Howard M. Federspiel
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824864521

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Sultans, Shamans, and Saints by Howard M. Federspiel Pdf

By the fourteenth century the Islamic faith had spread via maritime trade routes to Southeast Asia where, over the next seven hundred years, it would have a continuing influence on political life, social customs, and the development of the arts. Sultans, Shamans, and Saints looks at Islam in Southeast Asia during four major eras: its arrival (to 1300), the first flowering of Islamic identity (1300–1800), the era of imperialism (1800–1945), and the era of independent nation-states (1945–2000). Ranging across the humanities and social sciences, this balanced and accessible work emphasizes the historical development of Southeast Asia’s accommodation of Islam and the creation of its distinctive regional character. Each chapter opens with a general background summary that places events in the greater Asian/Southeast Asian context, followed by an overview of prominent ethnic groups, political events, customs and cultures, religious factors, and art forms. Sultans, Shamans, and Saints will be of great value to students and researchers specializing in the study of Islam and the comparative study of Muslim societies and culture. It will also be useful to those with a world-systems approach to the study of history and globalization.

Author : R Michael Feener,Terenjit Sevea
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812309235

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Islamic Connections by R Michael Feener,Terenjit Sevea Pdf

Well over half of the world's Muslim population lives in Asia. Over the centuries, a rich constellation of Muslim cultures developed there and the region is currently home to some of the most dynamic and important developments in contemporary Islam. Despite this, the internal dynamics of Muslim societies in Asia do not often receive commensurate attention in international Islamic Studies scholarship. This volume brings together the work of an interdisciplinary group of scholars discussing various aspects of the complex relationships between the Muslim communities of South and Southeast Asia. With their respective contributions covering points and patterns of interaction from the medieval to the contemporary periods, they attempt to map new trajectories for understanding the ways in which these two crucial areas have developed in relation to each other, as well as in the broader contexts of both world history and the current age of globalization.

Author : Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad,Patrick Jory
Publisher : The University of Malaya Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789674880194

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Islamic thought in Southeast Asia: New Interpretations and Movements by Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad,Patrick Jory Pdf

Recent years have witnessed a remarkable growth in scholarship on Islam within Southeast Asia. Underlying this scholarship is a desire to resolve pressing social and political problems facing Muslim communities, an awareness of the significance of pluralism and cultural hybridity within Southeast Asian societies, and the rapidly growing interaction between Southeast Asian Muslims and the outside world. The chapters in this book represent some of the exciting new directions young scholars in Southeast Asia universities are taking Islamic Studies. Themes covered include Islam and liberalism, the diverse streams of contemporary Islamic thought, “neo-Sufi” movements, Islam and human rights, the growing influence of Islamic law, Islam and democratic politics, Islamic education, and the relationship between Islam and ethnic identity.

Author : M. C. Ricklefs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822038682472

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Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java by M. C. Ricklefs Pdf

"First published by NUS Press, National University of Singapore."

Author : Greg Fealy,Virginia Matheson Hooker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Islam
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123152295

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Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia by Greg Fealy,Virginia Matheson Hooker Pdf

In an era when Islam ostensibly lies at the heart of a volatile nexus of a global campaign of war on terrorism, simplistic notions and dangerous misunderstandings about the cultures and nature of Southeast Asian Islam, in all its variants, are used to inform and justify policies.

Author : Lau-Fong Mak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Islam
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131813292

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Islamization in Southeast Asia by Lau-Fong Mak Pdf

Author : Georg Stauth
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839400814

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Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia by Georg Stauth Pdf

This book is about cultural and political figures, institutions and ideas in a period of transition in two Muslim countries in Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia. It also addresses some of the permutations of civilizing processes in Singapore and the city-state's image, moving across its borders into the region and representing a miracle of modernity beyond »ideas«. The central theme is the way in which Islam was re-constructed as an intellectual and socio-political tradition in Southeast Asia in the nineteen-nineties. Scholars who approach Islam both as a textual and local tradition, students who take the heartlands of Islam as imaginative landscapes for cultural transformation and politicians and institutions which have been concerned with transmitting the idea of »Islamization« are the subjects of this inquiry into different patterns of modernity in a tropical region still bearing the signature of a colonial past.