What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia, Paperback - Ismail Fajrie Alatas

Reducere. An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the...

This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for n...

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This collection of case studies, covering the period from classical Islam to the present, and taken from across the Islamic world, compares the rol...

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This volume foregrounds the dynamics of displacement and the experiences of internal refugees uprooted by conflict and violence in Indonesia. Contr...

Commissioned by the Blanton-Peale Institute, Cultivating Wholeness is a practical, comprehensive, contemporary guide to community care and counseli...

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An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia, and how people navigate dispossession

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Two decades after Indonesia's transition to democracy, its labor movement has emerged as a vibrant and influential political actor. Labor and Polit...

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This book aims to clarify the causes and fundamental constraints leading to the extraordinarily low level of Indonesia's Islamic financial deepenin...

DescriptionDemocracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinati...

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DescriptionMartin Lings provides an excellent and authoritative introduction to the mystical movement of the Sufis based on his lifelong interest i...

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Reducere. Fajr and Noor is a collection of quotes and poetry. A book filled with Noor that will illuminate your soul and guide you into a true Muslim. It is ...

This book assesses the continuity and significance of Hindu-Buddhist design motifs in Islamic mosques in Java. The volume investigates four pre-Isl...

This book studies a puzzle observed in contemporary Indonesian politics: while the quality of democracy in Indonesia has deteriorated in recent yea...

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This Element draws together two bodies of work: Islamic social movements and political Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia and explains the transformat...

Reducere. Drawing on both religious and secular sources, this challenging book argues that divinely ordained law is frequently misinterpreted by Muslim autho...

This volume focuses on the four most influential Islamic authority structures with a visible following among Muslims around the globe: Al-Azhar (Eg...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 25 images; 25 imagesNumber of pages: 504Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 233 x 40Cover ...

Reducere. Today, conversion is a contested religious, political, and personal phenomenon, and that was also the case in the ancient world. Using several prim...

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This book analyses the discourses of Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe to demonstrate the emerging discrepancies between the mother Church in...

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