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Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam : Explaining the "Conservative Turn"

""Once celebrated in the Western media as a shining example of a 'liberal' and 'tolerant' Islam, Indonesia since the end of the Soeharto regime (May 1998) has witnessed a variety of developments that bespeak a conservative turn in the country's Muslim politics. In...

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Auteur principal: Van Bruinessen, Martin
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:""Once celebrated in the Western media as a shining example of a 'liberal' and 'tolerant' Islam, Indonesia since the end of the Soeharto regime (May 1998) has witnessed a variety of developments that bespeak a conservative turn in the country's Muslim politics. In this timely collection of original essays, Martin van Bruinessen, our most distinguished senior Western scholar of Indonesian Islam, and four leading Indonesian Muslim scholars explore and explain these developments. Each chapter examines recent trends from a strategic institutional perch: the Council of Indonesian Muslim scholars, t.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9789814414579