Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia in the Nineteen-nineties
This book is about cultural and political figures, institutions and ideas in a period of transition in two Muslim countries in Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia. It also addresses some of the permutations of civilizing processes in Singapore and the city-state's image, moving across its borders into the region and representing a miracle of modernity beyond "ideas". The central theme is the way in which Islam was re-constructed as an intellectual and socio-political tradition in Southeast Asia in the nineteen-nineties. Scholars who approach Islam both as a textual and local tradition, students who take the heartlands of Islam as imaginative landscapes for cultural transformation and politicians and institutions which have been concerned with transmitting the idea of "Islamization" are the subjects of this inquiry into different patterns of modernity in a tropical region still bearing the signature of a colonial past.
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Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia in the Nineteen-nineties
This book is about cultural and political figures, institutions and ideas in a period of transition in two Muslim countries in Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia. It also addresses some of the permutations of civilizing processes in Singapore and the city-state's image, moving across its borders into the region and representing a miracle of modernity beyond "ideas". The central theme is the way in which Islam was re-constructed as an intellectual and socio-political tradition in Southeast Asia in the nineteen-nineties. Scholars who approach Islam both as a textual and local tradition, students who take the heartlands of Islam as imaginative landscapes for cultural transformation and politicians and institutions which have been concerned with transmitting the idea of "Islamization" are the subjects of this inquiry into different patterns of modernity in a tropical region still bearing the signature of a colonial past.
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Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia in the Nineteen-nineties

Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia in the Nineteen-nineties

by Georg Stauth
Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia in the Nineteen-nineties

Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia in the Nineteen-nineties

by Georg Stauth

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This book is about cultural and political figures, institutions and ideas in a period of transition in two Muslim countries in Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia. It also addresses some of the permutations of civilizing processes in Singapore and the city-state's image, moving across its borders into the region and representing a miracle of modernity beyond "ideas". The central theme is the way in which Islam was re-constructed as an intellectual and socio-political tradition in Southeast Asia in the nineteen-nineties. Scholars who approach Islam both as a textual and local tradition, students who take the heartlands of Islam as imaginative landscapes for cultural transformation and politicians and institutions which have been concerned with transmitting the idea of "Islamization" are the subjects of this inquiry into different patterns of modernity in a tropical region still bearing the signature of a colonial past.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783933127815
Publication date: 07/06/2002
Series: Global/Local Islam
Pages: 302
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Georg Stauth (Prof. Dr.) teaches Sociology of Islam at the University of Bielefeld.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Preface 9
1. Renaissance, Civilization, Mediterranée: Islam and the Challenge of Modernity in Southeast Asia 13
2. Indonesia - Malaysia: Structures of Embeddedness of Islam and the Multi-Ethnic Condition of Asia 45
3. Bureaucratism and Proto-Institutionalization of Islam in the Minangkabau Region of West Sumatra 87
4. Java Islam: Civil Society and Symbolic Politics of Tradition 143
5. Malaysia: Democracy and State-Islam 187
6. The Singapore Civilization 239
7. Asian Crisis and the End of Islamization? 261
Bibliography 271
Backmatter 301
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