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  • Islam and Asia

    A History

    by Chiara Formichi ...
    Series series New Approaches to Asian History
    Chiara Formichi explores the ways in which Islam and Asia have shaped each other's histories, societies and cultures from the seventh century to today. Challenging the assumed dominance of the Middle East in the development of Islam, Formichi argues for Asia's centrality in the development of global Islam as a religious, social and political reality. Readers learn how and why Asia is central to ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Shi'ism In South East Asia

    Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions

    Edited by Chiara Formichi, Michael Feener ...
    This is the first work available in any language to extensively document and critically discuss traditions of 'Alid piety and their modern contestations in the region. The concept of 'Alid piety allows for a reframing of our views on the widespread reverence for 'Ali, Fatima and their progeny that emphasizes how such sentiments and associated practices are seen as part of broad traditions shared ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Domestic Nationalism

    Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia

    by Chiara Formichi ...
    Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia's progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activities of care work. While sidelined in the Dutch colonial project of hygienic modernity, women's labor of social reproduction became increasingly visible. Women from all walks of life were called ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Religious Pluralism in Indonesia

    Threats and Opportunities for Democracy

    Edited by Chiara Formichi ...
    Series series Cornell Modern Indonesia Project
    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 ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia

    Edited by Chiara Formichi ...
    The Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia offers both new and established scholarship on Muslim societies and religious practices across Asia, from a variety of interdisciplinary angles, with chapters covering South, Central, East and Southeast Asia, as well as Africa–Asia connections.Presenting work grounded in archival, literary, and ethnographic inquiry, contributors to this handbook lend their ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Religious Pluralism, State and Society in Asia

    Edited by Chiara Formichi ...
    Series series Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series
    Taking a critical approach to the concept of ‘religious pluralism’, this book examines the dynamics of religious co-existence in Asia as they are directly addressed by governments, or indirectly managed by groups and individuals. It looks at the quality of relations that emerge in encounters among people of different religious traditions or among people who hold different visions within the same ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Hadrami Arabs in Present-day Indonesia

    An Indonesia-oriented group with an Arab signature

    by Frode F. Jacobsen ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book focuses on social and cultural trends in present-day Hadrami Arab societies in Eastern and Central Indonesia, and the history of the Hadrami Arab people, which demonstrates an early form of globalization. For centuries migration has played a vital part in Hadrami adaptation. External forces, such as the expanding powers of the Portugese in the Indian Ocean and the Turkish conquering ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia

    Disrupting Violence

    Edited by Linell E. Cady, Sheldon W. Simon ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    A major new contribution to comparative and multidisciplinary scholarship on the alignment of religion and violence in the contemporary world, with a special focus on South and Southeast Asia.Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia shows how this region is the site of recent and emerging democracies, a high degree of religious pluralism, the largest Muslim populations in the world, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Gender, Islam, Nationalism and the State in Aceh

    The Paradox of Power, Co-optation and Resistance

    by Jaqueline Aquino Siapno ...
    This book sets out to open up the space for interpretation of history and politics in Aceh which is now in a state of armed rebellion against the Indonesian government. It lays out a groundwork for analysing how female agency is constituted in Aceh, in a complex interplay of indigenous matrifocality, Islamic belief and practices, state terror, and political violence. Analysts of the current ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Muslims in Singapore

    Piety, politics and policies

    by Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Bryan S. Turner, Alexius Pereira ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and the cultural dominance of its Chinese elite, who are predominantly Buddhist and Christian. Singapore has a highly unusual approach to issues of religious diversity and multiculturalism, adopting a ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Politics Of Hate

    Religious Majoritarianism in South Asia

    by Farahnaz Ispahani ...
    Over the years, politicians across the world have exploited ethnic and religious sentiments to mobilize support in their favour. Majoritarian communalism entails rehashing historical grievances and creating fear among the majority that minorities threaten the former's religion, culture or tradition. In many instances, the minority groups are described as privileged, unduly supported by the state, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Gender, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia

    by Kathryn Robinson ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    This book explores the relationship between gender, religion and political action in Indonesia, examining the patterns of gender orders that have prevailed in recent history, and demonstrating the different forms of social power this has afforded to women. It sets out the part played by women in the nationalist movement, and the role of the women’s movement in the structuring of the independent ... Read more

    $68.99 USD