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  • Clerics in Contention

    Religious Authority and the Colonial Origins of Islamist Mobilization in Indonesia

    by Alexandre Pelletier ...
    Series series Cornell Modern Indonesia Project
    In Clerics in Contention**, Alexandre Pelletier investigates why Islamist mobilization takes root in some regions of Java but not in others.** Drawing on a dataset of thousands of Islamic schools and clerics, more than a hundred interviews, and archival research, he shows that West Java's religious field is uniquely fragmented and competitive. In that environment, clerics face constant pressure to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Winning by Process

    The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar

    by Jacques Bertrand, Alexandre Pelletier, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung ...
    Winning by Process asks why the peace process stalled in the decade from 2011 to 2021 despite a liberalizing regime, a national ceasefire agreement, and a multilateral peace dialogue between the state and ethnic minorities.Winning by Process argues that stalled conflicts are more than pauses or stalemates. "Winning by process," as opposed to winning by war or agreement, represents the state's ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Ecology of a Tool

    The ground stone axes of Irian Jaya (Indonesia)

    by Pierre Perequin, Anne-Marie Petrequin ...
    Translated by Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud ...
    Series Book 8 - Archéo Logiques
    New Guinea, and especially Papua New Guinea, is the last country in the world where ethnologists were able to closely observe, film and photograph the whole manufacturing chaînes opératoires of polished stone felling tools, from quarry extraction to finished tool use. Research on the polished blades of PNG has evolved over the years, following changing philosophies and research agendas. While it ... Read more

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  • Gendered Islamophobia

    My Journey With a Scar(f)

    by Monia Mazigh ...
    This passionate book describes the author's struggles as a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, who was born and raised in Tunisia, where she attended university before coming to Quebec, Canada as an immigrant. Mazigh describes her struggles against Islamophobia as it applies to women, especially those wearing hijab, who consistently get stereotyped as silent and compliant women dominated by their men. In ... Read more

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  • Islam in Indonesian Foreign Policy

    Domestic Weakness and the Dilemma of Dual Identity

    by Rizal Sukma ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    This companion volume to the highly successful Islam in Malaysian Foreign Policy explores the extent to which foreign policy in the world's largest Muslim nation has been influenced by Islamic considerations. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Problem of Democracy

    America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea

    by Shadi Hamid ...
    Shadi Hamid reimagines the ongoing debate on democracy's merits and proposes an ambitious agenda for reviving the lost art of democracy promotion in the world's most undemocratic regions. What happens when democracy produces "bad" outcomes? Is democracy good because of its outcomes or despite them? This "democratic dilemma" is one of the most persistent, vexing problems for America abroad, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • 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

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  • Islam in Africa: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Abdulkader Tayob ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

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  • Democracy and Islam in Indonesia

    Edited by Mirjam Künkler, Alfred Stepan ...
    Series Book 13 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic transition. Yet in every year since 2006, the world's most populous Muslim country has received high marks from international democracy-ranking organizations. In this volume, political scientists, religious scholars, legal theorists, and ... Read more

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  • Civil Islam

    Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia

    by Robert W. Hefner ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Civil Islam tells the story of Islam and democratization in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. Challenging stereotypes of Islam as antagonistic to democracy, this study of courage and reformation in the face of state terror suggests possibilities for democracy in the Muslim world and beyond.Democratic in the early 1950s and with rich precedents for tolerance and civility, Indonesia ... Read more

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  • Politics in Indonesia

    Democracy, Islam and the Ideology of Tolerance

    by Douglas E. Ramage ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Politics in Indonesia describes the attitudes, aspirations and frustrations of the key players in Indonesian politics as they struggle to shape the future. The book focuses on the role of political Islam; Douglas E. Ramage shows that the state has been remarkably successful in maintaining secular political institutions in a predominantly Muslim society. He analyses the way in which political ... Read more

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