Overview
- Adopts Professor Abdullah Saeed’s framework which has yet to be applied to a major Muslim country
- Elaborates the current development and transition of Indonesian Islam and Muslim society
- Supplements the research with social movement and anthropological theories
Part of the book series: Global Political Transitions (GLPOTR)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Main Body
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Muslim organisations, belief systems and movements
- Post-Suharto Indonesia
- Islamic Activism
- Crossover Islamic Conservatism
- post-New Order Indonesia
- Abdullah Saeed framework
- Islam, Muslims and the State
- Islam, Muslims, and activism in Indonesia
- Established Islam
- The New Emerging Islam
- Inclusivist Muslim Developments
- Conservatism in Indonesia and Islam
- pre-New Order Indonesia
About this book
This book focuses on Islam in Indonesia, showcasing the wide range of Muslim organisations, belief systems and movements, together with an analysis of the political behaviour of Indonesian Muslims. It includes an investigation of the structure of groups, organizations, and societies, and how Muslims within the archipelago interact within these contexts. In doing so, it promotes a more nuanced understanding of Indonesian Muslim society by approaching it through the utilisation of scholarly frameworks. Theories related to religion and society are used, especially in characterising the transition of the Indonesian Muslim society from pre-New Order to post-New Order. Particularly significant is Abdullah Saeed's framework in understanding one’s attitude towards key and contemporary issues, originally used to understand one’s attitude towards the religious ‘other’. The authors thus adopt this framework in the book, as a method of categorising people in a diverse society which in turnhelps readers to understand the nuances of Islam and Muslims in a huge country like Indonesia.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Leonard C. Sebastian is Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the Indonesia Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS). Educated at York University (Canada) and The Australian National University, his academic training is in History, International Political Economy and Strategic and Defence Studies. He has covered Indonesia in a career spanning more than two decades and published his first major work on Indonesia about defence and security doctrine titled Realpolitik Ideology: Indonesia’s Use of Military Force (2006).
Syed Huzaifah Bin Othman Alkaff is a Associate Research Fellow at the Indonesia Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. His research interests include Middle Eastern and North African Politics, Political Islam, Islamic Jurisprudence, and Islamist Movements in Southeast Asia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indonesia and Islam in Transition
Authors: Leonard C. Sebastian, Syed Huzaifah Bin Othman Alkaff
Series Title: Global Political Transitions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1140-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-97-1139-0Published: 25 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-97-1142-0Due: 25 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-97-1140-6Published: 23 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2522-8730
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8749
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 274
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Politics and Religion, Sociology of Religion, Islam