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Rebranding Islam : piety, prosperity, and a self-help guru /

Kyai Haji Abdullah Gymnastiar, known affectionately by Indonesians as "Aa Gym" (elder brother Gym), rose to fame via nationally televised sermons, best-selling books, and corporate training seminars. In Rebranding Islam James B. Hoesterey draws on two years' study of this charismatic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoesterey, James Bourk, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2015.
Colección:Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Authority, Subjectivity, and the Cultural Politics of Public Piety; Section One. Religious Authority; Chapter 1. Rebranding Islam: Autobiography, Authenticity, and Religious Authority ; Chapter 2. Enchanting Science: Popular Psychology as Religious Wisdom ; Section Two. Muslim Subjectivity; Chapter 3. Ethical Entrepreneurs: Islamic Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism ; Chapter 4: Prophetic Cosmopolitanism: The Prophet Muhammad as Psycho-Civic Exemplar ; Section Three. Politics of Public Piety.
  • Chapter 5. Shaming the State: Pornography and the Moral Psychology of Statecraft Chapter 6. Sincerity and Scandal: The Moral and Market Logics of Religious Authority ; Conclusion. Figuring Islam: Popular Culture and the Cutting Edge of Public Piety; Notes; References; Index.