Politics, Islam, and Public Opinion
In: Journal of democracy, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 109-123
ISSN: 1045-5736
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In: Journal of democracy, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 109-123
ISSN: 1045-5736
In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 119-126
ISSN: 0004-4687
In: Journal of democracy, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 109-123
ISSN: 1086-3214
Abstract: While many Muslims in Indonesia-the world's most populous Muslim-majority country-believe that laws should be broadly in accord with Islam, relatively few support policies advocated by Islamist activists. At the mass level, Islamism is a rural rather than an urban phenomenon. Islamist leaders may be alienated urbanites, but their followers are disproportionately rural and subscribe to a particularly rural-Indonesian understanding of religion and society. Indonesia's largest Muslim social organizations are significant obstacles to the further growth of Islamism. Not only are their leaders tolerant and pluralistic, but their broader memeberships seem immune to Islamism's allure
In: Journal of democracy, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 109-123
ISSN: 1045-5736
Finds that most Indonesian Muslims are politically moderate; based on 2002 survey conducted by the Research Center for the Study of Islam and Society (PPIM).