Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia

ISBN-13: 9781032629148 / Twarda / 2023 / 448 str.

USA) Hefner Robert W. (Boston University

Opis

This book examines the conditions facilitating democracy, women’s rights, and inclusive citizenship in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim majority country and the third largest democracy in the world. It will be of interest to the general reader with an interest in Islam, citizenship, and democracy.

Recenzje

“This book will be a standard reference for any future work on Islam and democracy in Indonesia or comparatively across the Muslim world. It is a culmination of more than two decades of work and experience addressing Islam, democratic politics, and society in Indonesia.”

– Vedi Hadiz, University of Melbourne, Australia 

 

“Robert Hefner is the leading scholar of Islam and democracy in Indonesia—the demographically largest and intellectually most vibrant Muslim-majority country. This book will be considered as Hefner’s magnum opus—a culmination of his half-a-century-long examination of diverse religious views and practices as well as their political implications in Indonesia’s rural and urban settings. Islam and Citizenship analyzes the complex relations between Muslim politics, democracy, and public ethics with a nuanced attention to the Indonesian context while also providing insights for the rest of the Muslim world. It masterfully covers contested issues such as sharia, gender relations, and education. This groundbreaking book will shape the field of religion and politics for many years to come.”

– Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University, USA. Author of Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison 

 

“Hefner’s book puts Muslims at the centre of the study of Islam in Indonesia, which he describes as having a ’complex and agonistic plurality’. This is a welcome intervention in contemporary commentary on Islam and politics, taking readers on a multisited and multidimensional journey.  Deploying an erudite lens that combines his ethnographic vision with comparative politics and sociology, he finds a concern with shared ideas of public ethics at the heart of contemporary contestations in the Muslim public sphere. Care of the social emerges as a key element accounting for the tenaciousness of Indonesian democracy, in the face of the conservative turn.”

– Kathryn Robinson, The Australian National University

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: Islam and Citizenship in Democratic Indonesia; Chapter 2. Citizenship Amidst Resurgence; Chapter 3. Religionization and the Politics of Recognition; Chapter 4. Exclusivist Islamism and the “Conservative Turn”; Chapter 5. Islamic Education and Ethical Prioritization; Chapter 6. Women and Gender Contention; Chapter 7.  Whose Shariah? Religious Politics and Citizen Ethics; Chapter 8.  Conclusion: The Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics; References Cited; Index

O autorze

Robert W. Hefner is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Pardee School of Global Affairs at Boston University, USA. He is the president of the American Institute for Indonesian Studies and a  former president of the Association for Asian Studies.  He specializes in the study of Muslim politics, modern public ethics, and democracy-across-cultures. His previous publications include the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia (ed. 2018).