Thursday, December 13, 2012

Religious Freedom in Contemporary Indonesia: The Case of the Ahmadiyah

Platzdasch, Bernhard. 2013. "Religious Freedom in Contemporary Indonesia: The Case of the Ahmadiyah". In Encountering Islam: the politics of religious identities in Southeast Asia, ed. Hui Yew-Foong, pp. 218-247. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Encountering Islam: The Politics of Religious Identities in Southeast Asia
Hui Yew-Foong, editor
Pub Date: 2012
Soft cover ISBN: 978-981-4379-92-2        S$39.90/US$32.90
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
No. of pages: 401

About the Publication This volume seeks to introduce and deepen the understanding of Islam and its role in politics as encountered in different national and transnational contexts in Southeast Asia, eschewing the neo-orientalist approach that has informed public discourse in recent years. In Encountering Islam, the book lingers beyond the summary moment and reflects on the multiple impressions, suppressions and repressions, whether coherent or incoherent, associated with Islam as a socio-political force in public life. To this end, it is not adequate simply to represent the divergent identities associated with Islam in Southeast Asia, whether embedded in state-endorsed orthodoxy or Islamic movements that contest such orthodoxy. It is also important to examine religious minorities in political contexts where Islam is dominant and Muslim communities in national contexts where they are minorities. By situating these religious identities within their larger socio-political contexts, this volume seeks to provide a more holistic understanding of what is encountered as Islam in Southeast Asia.


Table of Contents
Encountering Islam: The Politics of Religious Identities in Southeast Asia
Preliminary pages
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction - Encountering Islam, by Hui Yew-Foong
PART II: ISLAM ACROSS BORDERS
2. Religious Elites and the State in Indonesia and Elsewhere: Why Takeovers are so Difficult and Usually Don't Work, by M C Ricklefs
3. "I was the Guest of Allah": Modern Hajj Memoirs from Southeast Asia, by Eric Tagliacozzo
4. The Aurad Mohammadiah Congregation: Modern Transnational Sufism in Southeast Asia, by Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid
PART III: MALAYSIA
5. Legal-Bureaucratic Islam in Malaysia: Homeogenizing and Ringfencing the Muslim Subject, by Maznah Mohamad
6. The Letter of the Law and Reckoning of Justice among Tamils in Malaysia, by Andrew Willford
7. Islamization and Ethnicity in Sabah, Malaysia, by Regina Lim
PART IV: INDONESIA
8. Natsir and Sukarno: Their Clash over Nationalism, Religion and Democracy, 1928-1958, by Audrey Kahin
9. Religious Freedom in Contemporary Indonesia: The Case of the Ahmadiyah, by Bernhard Platzdasch
10. Religion and the Politics of Morality: Muslim Women Activists and the Pornography Debate in Indonesia, by Rachel Rinaldo
PART V: MUSLIM MINORITIES
11. Malay Muslims and the Thai-Buddhist State: Confrontation, Accommodation and Disengagement, by Ernesto H Braam
12. Identifying with Fiction: The Art and Politics of Short Story Writing by Muslims in the Philippines, by Coeli Barry
13. Issues on Islam and the Muslims in Singapore Post-9/11: An Analysis of the Dominant Perspective, by Noor Aisha bte Abdul Rahman
Index

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