Islam in Indonesia : the contest for society, ideas and values / Carool Kersten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kersten, Carool, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Indonesia.

Islam.

Islam and politics--Indonesia.

Islam and politics.

Democratization--Indonesia.

Democratization.

Indonesia--Religion.

Indonesia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

'Islam in Indonesia' maps the debates between progressive and reactionary Muslims in Indonesia since the regime change of 1998 and the start of a democratization process in the world's largest Muslim nation state. Conceived as an intellectual history or history of ideas, this text situates these debates in Indonesia's political context of the last fifteen years; it identifies and charts the genealogies of the different interlocutors; individual intellectuals and activists, institutions and outlets, which shape the discursive formations articulating the issues at hand.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction: An Intellectual History of Contemporary Indonesian Islam; Intellectual history as history of ideas; Outline of the book; 1. Secularism, Pluralism and Liberalism in Indonesian Muslim Contexts; The Association of Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals (ICMI); The final years of the New Order (1995-9); The dynastic failures of the early Reformasi era (1999-2004); Consolidating Reformasi or building a new dynasty? The SBY years (2004-14)

Political characteristics of post-Suharto IndonesiaThe 'Islam factor' in Indonesian politics; The intellectual-historical context; The formative years of progressive Muslim discourse in Indonesia; 2. Islam in Indonesia Today: Discourses and Interlocutors; Mapping contemporary Muslim intellectualism in Indonesia; Profiling the protagonists; Mazhab Ciputat: custodians of Nurcholish Madjid's intellectual legacy; Mazhab Jogja: meeting place of Modernists and Traditionalists; The influence of the Ciputat and Jogja Schools; New Ulama and 'moderatists' in the NU

The anak muda NU and Islamic post-traditionalismThe network of Young Muhammadiyah Intellectuals (JIMM); Liberal Islam Network (JIL); The antagonists; Progressive Muslim intellectuals in 21st-century Indonesia: not traditionalist or modernist, neither secular nor Islamist; 3. The Weight of the Predecessors: Adaptation, Critique and Transformation; Rethinking and redefining the concept of Ahlussunnah wal-Jama'ah; Circulation of ideas and travelling theory; Al-Jabiri's intellectual journey; Mohammed Arkoun: cultural-intellectual border crosser

Islamic post-traditionalism as an epistemological methodCriticizing Islamic neo-modernism; Islamic neo-modernism redefined; Transforming Islam in twenty-first-century Indonesia; New discursive formations for the twenty-first century; 4. Debating Secularism: Islam, Statehood and Democracy; Theorizing the state in post-Suharto Indonesia; Jakarta Charter redux, Medina Charter rising; A religious or liberal democratic state?; Secularism, secularization and liberalism: ambiguities and obscurities; Refining the secularization thesis: differentiation and deprivatization

Liberal Islam as social ethics and democratic forceReactionary responses to secularity and liberal Islam; The Pancasila in democratic Indonesia; A Pancasila Front to shield Indonesia from 'creeping Talibanization'; 5. The Letter or the Spirit of Islamic Law? Legal Formalists versus Substantivists; The context: Indonesian fiqh, national madhhab, and the role of Muslim intellectuals; Formalizing Islamic law: the localized shari'atization of Indonesia's legal system; Case study: perda syariat in Aceh; The material law covered in perda syariat; Critics of perda syariat

Substantivist interpretations of fiqh

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-063852-4

0-19-061310-6