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Indonesian Pluralities

Islam, Citizenship and Democracy
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The crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the failure of the Arab uprisings in the Middle East have pushed the question of how to live peacefully within a diverse society to the forefront. Against this backdrop, Indonesia-as the largest Muslim-majority country in the world and the third-largest democracy-has taken on particular importance. Some analysts say Indonesia offers proof of the compatibility of Islam and democracy, but sceptics argue that the growing religious intolerance that has marred the country's political transition discredits this. Based on a twenty-month project carried out in several regions of Indonesia, Indonesian Pluralities shows that when assessing democracy and citizenship in Indonesia today, we must examine not only elections and official politics but also the less formal yet more pervasive processes of social recognition at work. The contributors demonstrate that in fact citizen ethics are not static discourses but living traditions that co-evolve in relation to broader patterns of politics, gender, religious resurgence and ethnicity in society. This title is only available for sale through Eurospan in Japan.
Robert W. Hefner is professor of anthropology and global affairs and a senior research associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at the Pardee School of Global Affairs at Boston University. Zainal Abidin Bagir teaches at the Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies, Graduate School, at Gadjah Mada University and is the current director of the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies, a consortium of Gadjah Mada University, Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University and Duta Wacana Christian University, all in Yogyakarta.
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