Theologies of Remembering : Modernity, Ambiguity, and Transcendence in Islamic Indonesia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, Verena (Historian)

Series:

Islamic Humanities Series

Islamic Humanities Series ; v.8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Indonesia.

Islam.

Islamic modernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2026.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Theologies of Remembering reveals how Indonesia's two largest Muslim groups, Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah--self-identifying as respectively traditionalist and modernist--actively engage memory as a framework for theological thought and practice. By reimagining their pasts to respond to new contexts, they articulate what it means to be a traditionalist or a modernist in the present and imagine possibilities for the future. Verena Meyer draws on interviews with group members, Islamic intellectual and narrative traditions, and critical theory to show that processes of remembering facilitate manifestations of the divine that destabilize binaries between the historical and transhistorical as well as linear understandings of temporality. Observing how constructions of the past are called into the service of sometimes conflicting demands, she argues against the pervasive idea that Islamic modernities have lost their tolerance for ambiguity and paradox. Tensions among incommensurable memories are generative for articulating elusive theological insights and complex positionalities among both traditionalists and modernists, prompting us to rethink these familiar distinctions in modern identity politics.

Contents:

Front cover

Luminos page

Half title

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Names, Dates, Translation, and Transliteration

Introduction: Two Sons of Kauman

Chapter One - An Epistemic Opening

Chapter Two - Modernity's History

Chapter Three - A Museum Without a Past

Chapter Four - Grave Matters

Chapter Five - Good Muslims Remember, or The Politics of Coherence

Chapter Six - The Power of the Chain

Epilogue: Theologies of Remembering

Notes

References

Index

Back cover.

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Other Format:

Print version: Meyer, Verena Hanna Theologies of Remembering

ISBN:

9780520428140

OCLC:

1601985623