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This book examines the conditions facilitating democracy, women¿s rights, and inclusive citizenship in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim majority country and the third largest democracy in the world. It will be of interest to the general reader with an interest in Islam, citizenship, and democracy.

This book examines the conditions facilitating democracy, women¿s rights, and inclusive citizenship in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim majority country and the third largest democracy in the world. It will be of interest to the general reader with an interest in Islam, citizenship, and democracy.

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Examining the history, politics and meanings of the resurgence of Islam in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, this text explores the implications for Southeast Asia, the larger Muslim world, and the West.

Offers an overview of Pentecostalism around the world that focuses on cultural developments among second- and third-generation adherents in regions with large Pentecostal communities, considering the impact of these developments on political participation, citizenship, gender relations, and economic morality.

The description for this book, Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam, will be forthcoming.

One of the most important developments in Muslim politics in recent yearshas been the spread of movements calling for the implementation of sharia orIslamic law. Shari a Politics maps the ideals and organization of thesemovements and examines their implications for the future of democracy, citizenrights, and gender relations in the Muslim world. These studies of eightMuslim-majority societies, and state-of-the-field reflections by leading expe...

Robert W. Hefner is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University. He is editor of Shari'a Politics: Law and Society in the Modern Muslim World (IUP, 2011).

Robert W. Hefner is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University. He is editor of Shari'a Politics: Law and Society in the Modern Muslim World (IUP, 2011).

Robert W. Hefner is Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University and author or editor of 17 books on religion and politics, including Shari¿a Politics: Islamic Law and Society in the Modern World (IUP, 2011) and Muslims and Modernity: Society and Culture since 1800.

This book highlights the diverse ways in which religions first and foremost make use of the traditional power and communication channels available to them, like strategies of conversion, the preservation of traditional value systems, and the intertwining of religious and political power. Nevertheless, challenged by a more culturally and religiously diversified societies and by the growth of new religious sects, contemporary religions are also ...

Discusses Islamic education and politics in Southeast Asia. This book examines Islamic schooling in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and the southern Philippines.

Discusses Islamic education and politics in Southeast Asia. This book examines Islamic schooling in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and the southern Philippines.