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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784213803321

Autore

Lukens-Bull Ronald

Titolo

A peaceful Jihad : negotiating identity and modernity in Muslim Java / / Ronald Lukens-Bull

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

1-281-36845-8

9786611368456

1-4039-8029-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xvii, 152 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Contemporary anthropology of religion

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Islamic religious education - Indonesia - Java

Islamic modernism - Indonesia - Java

Islam - Social aspects - Indonesia - Java

Islam and state - Indonesia - Java

Java (Indonesia) Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-147) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Negotiating Tradition, Modernity, and Identity The "House" That Change Built "Politics" by Other Means: Using Education to Negotiate Change Beyond Education You Are Who You Follow: Negotiating Leadership and Community Identity A Peaceful Jihad in a Globalizing World References Cited

Sommario/riassunto

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book examines how the Islamic community in Java, Indonesia, is actively negotiating both modernity and tradition in the contexts of nation-building, globalisation, and a supposed clash of civilizations. The pesantren community, so-called because it is centered around an educational institution called the pesantren, uses education as a central arena for dealing with globalization and the construction and maintenance of an Indonesian Islamic identity. However, the community's efforts to wrestle with these issues extend beyond education into the public sphere in general and specifically in the area of leadership and politics. The case material is used to understand Muslim strategies and responses to civilizational contact and conflict. Scholars, educated



readers, and advanced undergraduates interested in Islam, religious education, the construction of religious identity in the context of national politics and globalization will find this work useful.