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This study of the conversion of tribal peoples to Christianity combines case studies with the contributors’ theories, challenging anthropologists and sociologists to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the…
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Discusses Islamic education and politics in Southeast Asia. This book examines Islamic schooling in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and the southern Philippines.
Robert W. Hefner
The Description for this book, Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam, will be forthcoming.
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Tells the story of Islam and democratization in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation. Challenging stereotypes of Islam as antagonistic to democracy, this study of courage and reformation in the…
Although depicted by its opponents as the product of political ideas made in the West, civil-democratic Islam represents an indigenous politics that seeks to build a distinctive Islamic modernity. In…
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…
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia offers an overview of the modern making and contemporary dynamics of culture, society, and politics in this powerful Asian nation. It provides a comprehensive…
Examining the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and South-East Asians, this volume does so, not in terms of formal models and faceless abstractions, but in the light…
Unparalleled in its range of topics and geographical scope, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of Muslim culture and society since 1800. With topics ranging from religious thought, Islamic law…
Presents an analysis designed to bridge the gap between village studies and social history. This book describes the forces that have shaped upland politics and society from pre-colonial times to…
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.
Luthfie Assyaukanie
Dr Luthfi Assyaunkanie considers the search for an ideal model of polity and focuses on the santri generation, which entered the public arena in the 1970s.
The crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the failure of the Arab uprisings in the Middle East have pushed the question of how to live peacefully within a diverse…
Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical Islam. This work examines the varieties of modern Muslim education and…
This interdisciplinary introduction offers students a truly global overview of the worldwide spread and impact of Christianity. It is enriched throughout by detailed historic and ethnographic material, showing how broad…
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Introducing World Christianity brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an engaging introduction to the global impact of Christianity. This book takes a non-theological approach, focusing…
There has long been a debate about implications of globalization for the survival of the world of sovereign nation-states, and the role of nationalism as both an agent of and…
Analyzing the causes of the social, political, and economic crises that erupted in Indonesia in the late 1990s, the scholars elicit the responses of the elite and civil society, and…
Islamic law and social movements in eight Muslim-majority countries
Offers an overview of Pentecostalism around the world that focuses on cultural developments among second- and third-generation adherents in regions with large Pentecostal communities, considering the impact of these developments…
Focuses on cultural developments among second- and third-generation adherents in regions with large Pentecostal communities, considering the impact of these developments on political participation, citizenship, gender relations, and economic morality.
They suggest that despite the tragic violence wrought in recent years by Boko Haram and the Islamic State in Iraq, we may yet see an age of ethical renewal across…
