Improvisational Islam (eBook)

Indonesian Youth in a Time of Possibility

Nur Amali Ibrahim (Autor)

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2018
210 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
9781501727887 (ISBN)

Infos

"In this landmark account, Nur Amali Ibrahim paints a nuanced, detailed portrait of students seeking to reconcile some of the major social forces that inflect everyday life across the Muslim world—Islam, liberalism, radicalism, and secularism—as they strive to both find and define their place in a fast-changing, democratizing nation. Ibrahim demonstrates the critical importance of scholarly attention in both anthropology and religious studies to this vibrant country—the world’s largest Muslim nation."

â•Daromir Rudnyckyj, Associate Professor, University of Victoria, and author of the award-winning Spiritual Economies

Improvisational Islam  is about novel and unexpected ways of being Muslim, where religious dispositions are achieved through techniques that have little or no precedent in classical Islamic texts or concepts.

Nur Amali Ibrahim foregrounds two distinct autodidactic university student organizations, each trying to envision alternative ways of being Muslim independent from established religious and political authorities. One group draws from methods originating from the business world, like accounting, auditing, and self-help, to promote a puritanical understanding of the religion and spearhead Indonesia’s spiritual rebirth. A second group reads Islamic scriptures alongside the western human sciences. Both groups, he argues, show a great degree of improvisation and creativity in their interpretations of Islam.

These experimental forms of religious improvisations and practices have developed in a specific Indonesian political context that has evolved after the deposal of President Suharto’s authoritarian New Order regime in 1998. At the same time, Improvisational Islam suggests that the Indonesian case study brings into sharper relief processes that are happening in ordinary Muslim life everywhere. To be a practitioner of their religion, Muslims draw on and are inspired by not only their holy scriptures, but also the non-traditional ideas and practices that circulate in their society, which importantly include those originating in the West. In the contemporary political discourse where Muslims are often portrayed as uncompromising and adversarial to the West and where bans and walls are deemed necessary to keep them out, this story about flexible and creative Muslims is an important one to tell.

Autor

Nur Amali Ibrahim is Assistant Professor at the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of International Studies at Indiana University.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
1. The Tremblingness of Youths
2. Religion Unleashed
3. Accounting for the Soul
4. Playing with Scriptures
5. From Moderate Indonesia to Indonistan
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2018
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • Campus Proselytization Association • Comparative Religion • Indonesia • Indonesian • Indonesian Muslims • Indonesian Studies • Indonesian Youths • International Studies • Islam • Islam in Indonesia • Jakarta • Muslim • Muslim Studies • New Order regime • New Order Regime in 1998 • President Suharto • Religion Studies • Religious Improvisations • Religious Studies • Southeast Asian Studies
• ISBN-13: 9781501727887 / 9781501727887