Overview
- Examines the History of state-religion relationship in Indonesia
- Addresses key issues of religion tension, Islamic Populism, Minority Rights and the Vilification Law
- Considers the tension between religious order and harmony, and religious freedom
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- contemporary development of religion in Southeast Asia
- religious freedom in Asia
- regulation of religion
- agama in Indonesian culture
- state-religion relationship in modern Indonesia
- political compromise and the concept of Ketuhanan Yang Esa
- state policies on religion from the Sukarno period
- government and religion in the New Order era
- religious life in the post-1998 Reformasi period
- Indonesian Vilification Law or Blasphemy Law
- religion and society
About this book
This book analyses the relation between state and religion in Indonesia, considering both the philosophical underpinning of government intervention on religious life but also cases and regulations related to religious affairs in Indonesia. Examining state regulation of religious affairs, it focuses on understanding its origin, history and consequences on citizens’ religious life in modern Indonesia, arguing that while Indonesian constitutions have preserved religious freedom, they have also tended to construct wide-ranging discretionary powers in the government to control religious life and oversee religious freedom. Over more than four decades, Indonesian governments have constructed a variety of policies on religion based on constitutional legacies interpreted in the light of the norms and values of the existing religious majority group. A cutting edge examination of the tension between religious order and harmony on one hand, and protecting religious freedom for all on the other,this book offers a cutting edge study of how the history of regulating religion has been about the constant negotiation for the boundaries of authority between the state and the religious majority group.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religion and Regulation in Indonesia
Authors: Ismatu Ropi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2827-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2826-7Published: 13 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9715-7Published: 14 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2827-4Published: 05 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 263
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Religion and Society, Public Policy, Sociology of Religion