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Islam, law, and equality in Indonesia : an anthropology of public reasoning /

In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, Muslims struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws, including those derived from Islam, local social norms, and contemporary ideas about gender equality and law. John Bowen explores this struggle through arc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bowen, John R. (John Richard), 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Village Repertoires. Law, religion and pluralism ; Adat's local inequalities ; Remapping adat
  • pt. II. Reasoning legally through scripture. The contours of the courts ; The judicial history of 'consensus' ; The poisoned gift ; Historicizing scripture, justifying equality
  • pt. III. Governing Muslims through family. Whose word is law? ; Gender equality in the family? ; Justifying religious boundaries ; Public reasoning across cultural pluralism.