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

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""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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Main Author: Van Bruinessen, Martin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Muhammadiyah (Organization)
Majelis Ulama Indonesia.
Radicalism > Religious aspects > Islam.
Muslims.
Islam and politics.
Islam.
Radicalisme > Indonesie > Aspect religieux > Islam.
Musulmans > Indonesie.
Islam > Indonesia > 21st century.
Radicalism > Indonesia > Religious aspects > Islam.
Islam and politics > Indonesia.
Muslims > Indonesia.
Indonesia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:""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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9789814414579

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