Suchergebnisse

Islam in an Era of Nation-States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia / Robert W. Hefner. -- Appreciating Islam in the Muslim Philippines: Authority, Experience, and Identity in Cotabato / Thomas M. McKenna. -- Islamization and Democratization in Indonesia / Robert W. Hefner. -- Traditionalist Islam and the State in Indonesia: The Road to Legitimacy and Renewal /Andree Feillard. -- Modern Intentions: Reshaping Subjectivities in an Indonesian Muslim Society / John R. Bowen. -- The Ahmadiyya Movement in Simunul: Islamic Reform in One Remote and Unlikely Place / Patricia Horvatich. -- Identity Construction, Nation Formation, and Islamic Revivalism in Malaysia / Shamsul A.B. -- "Ordinary Muslims" and Muslim Resurgents in Contemporary Malaysia: Notes on an Ambivalent Relationship / Michael G. Peletz . -- Islamization and the Reshaping of Identities in Rural South Sulawesi / Martin Rossler

What is Islamic finance (IF)? To gain a better understanding of the phenomenal rise of IF in general, of Southeast Asia's particular role as an epicenter for IF innovation and development, and of the opportunities and challenges facing IF as an economically viable global financial industry, Asia Policy presents insights from a panel of senior finance officials, industry practitioners, and scholars.

In 1945, Sukarno declared that the new Indonesian republic would be grounded on monotheism, while also insisting that the new nation would protect diverse religious practice. The essays in Religious Pluralism in Indonesia explore how the state, civil society groups, and individual Indonesians have experienced the attempted integration of minority and majority religious practices and faiths across the archipelagic state over the more than half century since Pancasila. The chapters in Religious Pluralism in Indonesia offer analyses of contemporary phenomena and events; the changing legal and social status of certain minority groups; inter-faith relations; and the role of Islam in Indonesia's foreign policy. Amidst infringements of human rights, officially recognized minorities—Protestants, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhists and Confucians—have had occasional success advocating for their rights through the Pancasila framework. Others, from Ahmadi and Shi'i groups to atheists and followers of new religious groups, have been left without safeguards, demonstrating the weakness of Indonesia's institutionalized "pluralism."

"Addresses the state of religious pluralism in the post-Suharto era (1965-1998) with case-studies from across the religious spectrum (Animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, and Islam) and across the social sciences. The volume opens a number of windows on how the state, its government bodies, civil society groups, and individuals have experienced the five principles of Pancasila as a framework for the attempted integration of minorities and majorities across the archipelagic state"--