Monday, January 12, 2015

Renegotiating Indonesian secularism through debates on Ahmadiyya and Shia

Philosophy and Social Criticism 1–12

Saskia Schaefer
Columbia University, New York, USA

Abstract
Commentators have mainly viewed the Ahmadiyya debate in Indonesia either as a controversy over heterodoxy or as an episode raising questions about the human rights of ‘religious minorities’. Instead, I suggest viewing these debates as a field of normative questions of secularism in which the claims of religious are renegotiated in response to the fragmentation of religious and political authority brought on by a diversification of the use of media and a loss of trust in the Indonesian post-Suharto democracy, and between normative questions of secularism.

Keywords: Ahmadiyya, heresy, Indonesia, Islam, secularism

https://www.academia.edu/10125823/Renegotiating_Indonesian_secularism_through_debates_on_Ahmadiyya_and_Shia?auto=download&campaign=upload_email

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