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Record Nr.

UNINA9910252720903321

Autore

Chao En-Chieh

Titolo

Entangled Pieties : Muslim-Christian Relations and Gendered Sociality in Java, Indonesia / / by En-Chieh Chao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-48420-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Collana

Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

Disciplina

261.27

Soggetti

Ethnology

Ethnography

Religion and sociology

Gender identity—Religious aspects

Islam

Social Anthropology

Sociology of Religion

Religion and Society

Religion and Gender

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Pieties in Contact, Everyday Conflict and Pluralism in Muslim-Christian Indonesia -- 2. Generating Religioisities: The entangled history of Islam and Christianity in Java -- 3. Engineering Horizons: Controversies over Landscaping and Belonging in Salatiga -- 4. Regendering Community: Women Reshaping Javanese Rites of Passage in Mixed Communities -- 5. Regendering Ethnicity: Pentecostal Gender Dynamics Reshaping Chinese Imageries -- 6. Performing Pluralism: Islamic Greetings, Christian Halal Food, and Religious Holidays -- 7. Conclusion: Not Just a Story about Tolerance.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the social life of Muslim women and Christian minorities amid Islamic and Christian movements in urban Java, Indonesia. Drawing on anthropological perspectives and 14 months of participant observation between 2009 and 2013 in the multi-religious Javanese city of Salatiga, this ethnography examines the interrelations



between Islamic piety, Christian identity, and gendered sociability in a time of multiple religious revivals. The novel encounters between multiple forms of piety and customary sociality among “moderate” Muslims, puritan Salafists, born-again Pentecostals, Protestants, and Catholics require citizens to renegotiate various social interactions. En-Chieh Chao argues that piety has become a complex phenomenon entangled with gendered sociality and religious others, rather than a preordained outcome stemming from a closed religious tradition.