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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Bruinessen, Martin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam and the ""Conservative Turn"" of the Early Twenty-First Century; 2. Overview of Muslim Organizations, Associations and Movements in Indonesia; 3. Towards a Puritanical Moderate Islam: The Majelis Ulama Indonesia and the Politics of Religious Orthodoxy; 4. Liberal and Conservative Discourses in the Muhammadiyah: The Struggle for the Face of Reformist Islam in Indonesia; 5. The Politics of Shariah: The Struggle of the KPPSI in South Sulawesi.
  • 6. Mapping Radical Islam: A Study of the Proliferation of Radical Islam in Solo, Central Java7. Postscript: The Survival of Liberal and Progressive Muslim Thought in Indonesia; Index.